QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. what is mental health nursing: a specialized area of nursing practice committed to
promoting mental health throughout the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of human resources
to mental health problems and psychiatric disorders
2. who created a holistic approach to nursing: Florence nightingale
3. who recommended therapeutic communication and stated that
reducing anxiety about an illness is a way to encourage
independence and self care?: - Florence nightingale
4. The first trained nurse in the US: Linda richards
5. they opened Boston city hospital training school for nurses in
1882 at McLean Hospital (a psychiatric facility) and provided
physical care for psychi-atric patients who developed medical
illnesses: Linda Richards
6. who integrated psychiatric nursing content into the
curriculum at John Hopkins phipps clinic.: Efle Taylor
7. what two people encourages RNs to avoid the dichotomy of
mind and body: Nightingale and Taylor
8. who wrote the first psychology textbook: Harriet Bailey
9. who was the first published nursing theorist after Florence
nightingale: Hilde-gard Peplau
10. who wrote interpersonal relations in nursing and introduced
psychiatric mental health nursing practice to the concepts of
interpersonal relations and the therapeutic relationship: Hildegard
peplau
11. who conceptualized nursing practice as independent of
physicians: Peplau
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, INTRODUCTION TO MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
12. who established first graduate level program for the
preparation of clinical specialists in psychiatric nursing: Peplau
13. who established the following:
1. therapeutic use of self
2. nursing practice independent of physicians: peplau
14. in 1952, peplau was apart of was requirement: accredited schools
require and otter a psychiatric nursing experience
15. in 1967, peplau was about of what: division of psych and mental health
nursing first statement on psychiatric nursing practice.
making it the 1st oflcial sanction of holistic approach of psychiatric mental health nursing.
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