Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice 6th Edition Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health
... [Show More] Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice
Chapter 02: Mental Health and Mental Disorders
Chapter 03: Cultural and Spiritual Issues Related to Mental Health Care
Chapter 04: Patient Rights and Legal Issues
Chapter 05: Mental Health Care in the Community
Chapter 06: Ethics, Standards, and Nursing Frameworks
Chapter 07: Psychosocial Theoretic Basis of Psychiatric Nursing
Chapter 08: Biologic Foundations of Psychiatric Nursing
Chapter 09: Communication and the Therapeutic Relationship
Chapter 10: The Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Process
Chapter 11: Psychopharmacology, Dietary Supplements, and Biologic Interventions
Chapter 12: Cognitive Interventions in Psychiatric Nursing
Chapter 13: Group Interventions
Chapter 14: Family Assessment and Interventions
Chapter 15: Mental Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents
Chapter 16: Mental Health Promotion for Young and Middle-Aged Adults
Chapter 17: Mental Health Promotion for Older Adults
Chapter 18: Stress and Mental Health
Chapter 19: Management of Anger, Aggression, and Violence
Chapter 20: Crisis, Loss, Grief, Response, Bereavement, and Disaster Management
Chapter 21: Suicide Prevention: Screening, Assessment, and Intervention
Chapter 22: Schizophrenia and Related Disorders: Nursing Care of Persons with Thought
Disorders
Chapter 23: Depression: Management of Depressive Moods and Suicidal Behavior
Chapter 24: Bipolar Disorders: Management of Mood Lability
Chapter 25: Anxiety Disorders: Management of Anxiety, Phobia, and Panic
Chapter 26: Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders
Chapter 27: Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders
Chapter 28: Personality and Borderline Personality Disorder: Management of Emotional Dysregulation and Self-
Harm
Chapter 29: Antisocial Personality and Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders
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Chapter 30: Addiction and Substance-Related Disorders
Chapter 31: Eating Disorders: Management of Eating and Weight
Chapter 32: Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
Chapter 33: Nursing Care of Persons with Insomnia and Sleep Problems
Chapter 34: Sexual Disorders: Management of Sexual Dysfunction and Paraphilias
Chapter 35: Mental Health Assessment of Children and Adolescents
Chapter 36: Mental Health Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
Chapter 37: Mental Health Assessment of Older Adults
Chapter 38: Neurocognitive Disorders
Chapter 39: Caring for Persons Who Are Homeless and Mentally Ill
Chapter 40: Caring for Persons With Co-occurring Mental Disorders
Chapter 41: Caring for Survivors of Violence and Abuse
Chapter 42: Caring for Persons With Mental Illness and Criminal Behavior
Chapter 43: Caring for Medically Compromised Persons
Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice
(Answers after each Chapter)
1. A group of nursing students are reviewing information about the evolution of mental health
care and are 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. A nurse is reviewing the American Nurses Association’s Statement on Psychiatric Nursing
Practice published in 1967, which sanctioned the involvement of psychiatricmental health nurses in the
provision of holistic nursing care. Integrating knowledge 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. A nursing instructor is preparing a presentation about key events and people that influenced the
development of contemporary mental health and illness care. When describing the effects of World War
II, which of the following would the instructor include?
A) People began to view mental illness as more commonplace 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. A nursing student is presenting a discussion of the history of psychiatricmental health nursing
and its place within nursing history. Which of the following would be most appropriate to include?
A) Certification for the psychiatricmental health nursing specialty was first emphasized by Mary
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. Two nursing students are discussing psychiatricmental health nursing and the role it has played
in nursing’s overall history. Which statement is most accurate?
A) The importance of using therapeutic communication was stressed by Nightingale.
B) The use of self-care to enhance the immune system was taught by Dorothea Dix.
C) The moral treatment of mental illness was a primary focus of deinstitutionalization.
D) Peplau was the first nurse to stress the importance of therapeutic communication.
6. When reviewing the evolution of mental health and illness care, which event is associated with
mental disorders beginning to be viewed as illnesses requiring treatment?
A) Establishment of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia
B) Quaker establishment of asylums
C) Creation of the state hospital system
D) Freud’s views on the causes of mental illnesses
7. A psychiatricmental health nurse is working on a committee that is developing programs that
integrate the objectives for mental health and mental disorders as identified in Healthy People 2020.
Which type of program would be least appropriate?
A) Single substance abuse treatment programs
B) Depression screening programs for primary care providers
C) Mental health programs for the homeless population
D) Employment programs for those with serious mental illness
8. A nursing instructor is describing the concept of evidence-based practice in psychiatricmental
health nursing. Which of the following would the instructor include as being important? Select all that
apply.
A) Research findings
B) Expert opinion
C) Clinical experiences
D) Patient data
E) Established routines
9. The following events are important in the development of psychiatricmental health nursing
practice. Which event occurred first?
A) Publication of Standards of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing by the ANA
B) Publication of Standards of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Practice
C) Establishment of the first graduate program in psychiatric nursing at Rutgers University
D) Publication of the first psychiatric nursing text, Nursing Mental Disease, by Harriet Bailey
10. A nurse is preparing a presentation about the current status of mental health services in the
United States. Which statement would the nurse include as the most reflective of this status?
A) Mental health care in the United States is equally accessible to individuals.
B) Mental illness ranks second in terms of causing disability in comparison.
C) Mental health care primarily focuses on the cure of mental illness.
D) Mental health care services are inadequate and fragmented.
11. A group of students are reviewing the goals identified by the New Freedom Commission on
Mental Health. The students demonstrate understanding of this report when they identify which of the
following as a goal?
A) Mental health is viewed as one component of overall health.
B) The consumer and family are the driving forces for mental health care.
C) Screening is of greater importance than assessment and referral for services. [Show Less]