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1. 1. A group of nursing students are reviewing informa- C) Clinics supplemented
tion about the evolution of mental health care and are by general hospital units
discussing the recommendations of the final report of
the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and
Health. The students demonstrate understanding of
this information when they identify that the report
recommended an increase in which of the following?
A) Numbers of mental health hospitals
B) State funding for mental health care
C) Clinics supplemented by general hospital units
D) Use of psychotherapy by psychiatrists
2. 2. A nurse is reviewing the American Nurses Associa- B) Florence Nightingale's
tion's Statement on Psychiatric Nursing Practice Notes on Nursing
published in 1967, which sanctioned the involvement
of psychiatric mental health nurses in the
provision of holistic nursing care. Integrating knowl-
edge of the various theories and views of mental
health and illness, the nurse identifies which of the
following as most strongly linked to this holistic
approach?
A) Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory
B) Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing
C) Hildegarde
D) Clifford Beers' A Mind That Found Itself
E) Peplau's Interpersonal Relations in Nursing
3. 3. A nursing instructor is preparing a presentation A) People began to view
about key events and people that influenced the mental illness as more
development of contemporary mental health and ill- commonplace and accept-
ness care. When describing the effects of World War able.
II, which of the following would the instructor include?
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A) People began to view mental illness as more com-
monplace and acceptable.
B) The biologic understanding of mental illness was
almost fully developed.
C) Deinstitutionalization occurred in response to the
community health movement.
D) Mental illnesses became categorized as psychoses
or neuroses.
4. 4. A nursing student is presenting a discussion of the C) There is a historical link
history of psychiatric mental health nursing and its between the first nursing
place within nursing history. Which of the following program to admit male
would be most appropriate to include? students and the first
A) Certification for the psychiatric mental health nurs- training school for psychi-
ing specialty was first emphasized by Mary atric nursing.
Adelaide Nutting.
B) Psychiatric nurses played a part in seeing that all
deinstitutionalized patients got treatment at
community mental health centers.
C) There is a historical link between the first nursing
program to admit male students and the first
training school for psychiatric nursing.
D) The first graduate program in psychiatric nurses
was established in response to the publication of
psychiatric nursing specialty journals.
5. 5. Two nursing students are discussing psychiatric A) The importance of us-
mental health nursing and the role it has played in ing therapeutic commu-
nursing's overall history. Which statement is most ac- nication was stressed by
curate? Nightingale.
A) The importance of using therapeutic communica-
tion was stressed by Nightingale.
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1. 1. A group of nursing students are reviewing informa- C) Clinics supplemented
tion about the evolution of mental health care and are by general hospital units
discussing the recommendations of the final report of
the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and
Health. The students demonstrate understanding of
this information when they identify that the report
recommended an increase in which of the following?
A) Numbers of mental health hospitals
B) State funding for mental health care
C) Clinics supplemented by general hospital units
D) Use of psychotherapy by psychiatrists
2. 2. A nurse is reviewing the American Nurses Associa- B) Florence Nightingale's
tion's Statement on Psychiatric Nursing Practice Notes on Nursing
published in 1967, which sanctioned the involvement
of psychiatric mental health nurses in the
provision of holistic nursing care. Integrating knowl-
edge of the various theories and views of mental
health and illness, the nurse identifies which of the
following as most strongly linked to this holistic
approach?
A) Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory
B) Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing
C) Hildegarde
D) Clifford Beers' A Mind That Found Itself
E) Peplau's Interpersonal Relations in Nursing
3. 3. A nursing instructor is preparing a presentation A) People began to view
about key events and people that influenced the mental illness as more
development of contemporary mental health and ill- commonplace and accept-
ness care. When describing the effects of World War able.
II, which of the following would the instructor include?
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A) People began to view mental illness as more com-
monplace and acceptable.
B) The biologic understanding of mental illness was
almost fully developed.
C) Deinstitutionalization occurred in response to the
community health movement.
D) Mental illnesses became categorized as psychoses
or neuroses.
4. 4. A nursing student is presenting a discussion of the C) There is a historical link
history of psychiatric mental health nursing and its between the first nursing
place within nursing history. Which of the following program to admit male
would be most appropriate to include? students and the first
A) Certification for the psychiatric mental health nurs- training school for psychi-
ing specialty was first emphasized by Mary atric nursing.
Adelaide Nutting.
B) Psychiatric nurses played a part in seeing that all
deinstitutionalized patients got treatment at
community mental health centers.
C) There is a historical link between the first nursing
program to admit male students and the first
training school for psychiatric nursing.
D) The first graduate program in psychiatric nurses
was established in response to the publication of
psychiatric nursing specialty journals.
5. 5. Two nursing students are discussing psychiatric A) The importance of us-
mental health nursing and the role it has played in ing therapeutic commu-
nursing's overall history. Which statement is most ac- nication was stressed by
curate? Nightingale.
A) The importance of using therapeutic communica-
tion was stressed by Nightingale.
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