Test Bank For Neeb's Mental Health Nursing 5th Edition by Linda M. Gorman, Robyn

TEST BANK for Mental Health Nursing 5th Edition by Robynn Gorman, Linda M.; Anwar

Chapter 1. History of Mental Health Nursing

Multiple Choice

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

____ 1. The act of developing a clean environment is a factor in providing effective health care as

demonstrated by:

1. Nightingale.

2. Benner.

3. Swanson.

4. King.

____ 2. What is the name of the publication written by Florence Nightingale?

1. Nursing Sanitation Notes

2. Nursing 101

3. Notes on Nursing

4. Nursing Notes

____ 3. A long-term goal for inpatient mental health treatment is generally to:

1. Return the patient to the community.

2. Locate a facility for long-term care.

3. Be arrested and placed in prison.

4. Be completely cured of the disorder.

____ 4. The mentally ill were once housed in mental institutions known as:

1. Hospitals.

2. Long-term care facilities.

3. Asylums.

4. Free-standing treatment centers.

____ 5. Which nursing theorists promoted the interpersonal theory between the nurse and the patient?

1. Hildegard Peplau

2. Hattie Bessent

3. Mary Mahoney

4. Linda Richards

Completion

Complete each statement.

6. The first psychiatric program of study was established by which nursing leader? ______ _______

_________

7. Which nurse theorist was the first American-trained nurse credited with teaching how to provide

care for people with mental illness? ___________ ____________

8. The greatest advance in the early years of mental health care was the introduction of

___________________.

9. The legislation that provided funding for improving the care of the mentally ill is known as the

National Mental Health Act of what year? ______.

10. One of the goals of the American Nurses association (ANA) is to promote ________________ of

nursing care in the United States.

11. ______________ ____________ has always been called the “founder of nursing.”

12. A schoolteacher by the name of _____________ _________helped established asylums and

psychiatric hospitals for the mentally ill.

13. The first psychotropic drug category was known as ____________________.

14. The first major federal law to address mental illness was called the _____-_______ Act.

Multiple Response

Identify one or more choices that best complete the statement or answer the question.

____ 15. What trends contributed to the deinstitutionalization of mental health facilities to outpatient care

(select all that apply)?

1. Cost of the facilities

2. The increased use of phenothiazines

3. Staff cost

4. Establishment of outpatient clinics

5. Development of the Patient Bill of Rights

Chapter 1. History of Mental Health Nursing

Answer Section

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. ANS: 1

Page: 2

Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning

Content Area: Community Health

Cognitive Level: Application

Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Safety and Infection Control

Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; The Trailblazers; Florence Nightingale

Feedback

1 The relationship between sanitary conditions and healing became known and

accepted due to Nightingale’s observations and diligence. Her commitment to

improved outcomes at a military hospital was directly related to introducing

sanitation methods.

2 Benner did not emphasize developing a clean environment as a factor in

providing effective health care.

3 Swanson did not emphasize developing a clean environment as a factor in

providing effective health care.

4 King did not emphasize developing a clean environment as a factor in providing

effective health care.

PTS: 1

REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; The Trailblazers; Florence Nightingale

2. ANS: 3

Page: 3

Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning

Content Area: Nursing Trends

Cognitive Level: Knowledge

Client Need: Health Promotion and Maintenance: Health Promotion/Disease Prevention

Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; The Trailblazers; Florence Nightingale

Feedback

1 Although Florence Nightingale did write a book on the relationship of sanitary

techniques to medical facilities, it was called Notes on Hospitals, not Nursing

Sanitation Notes.

2 Florence Nightingale did not write Nursing 101.

3 Florence Nightingale wrote the book Notes on Nursing, which was the most

respected nursing textbook of its day.

4 Florence Nightingale did not write Nursing Notes.

PTS: 1

REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; The Trailblazers; Florence Nightingale

3. ANS: 1

Page: 8

Integrated Processes: Nursing Process: Planning

Content Area: Mental Health

Cognitive Level: Comprehension

Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Coordinated Care

Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; The Breakthroughs

Feedback

1 People who had formerly required long hospital stays were now able to leave

the institutions and return to their communities due to appropriate medications

and deinstitutionalization.

2 Locating a facility for long-term care is not a long-term goal for inpatient mental

health treatment.

3 Being arrested and placed in prison is not a long-term goal for inpatient mental

health treatment.

4 The long-term goal is not to be completely cured of the disorder but control

unwanted behaviors.

PTS: 1 REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; The Breakthroughs

4. ANS: 3

Page: 7

Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning

Content Area: Mental Health

Cognitive Level: Comprehension

Client Need: Psychosocial Integrity: Therapeutic Environment

Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; The Facilities; Asylums

Feedback

1 Hospitals are not mental institutions but can handle patients with psychological

needs according to the size of the hospital and its resources.

2 Long-term care facilities are not mental institutions.

3 Early on, these special facilities were called asylums, which Webster’s online

dictionary defines as “an institution for the care of the needy or sick and

especially of the insane.”

4 Free-standing treatment centers are not mental institutions but can handle

patients that need detoxification (detox centers) or help managing a crisis (crisis

centers).

PTS: 1 REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; The Facilities; Asylums

5. ANS: 1

Page: 5

Integrated Processes: Communication and Documentation

Content Area: Nursing Trends

Cognitive Level: Knowledge

Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Coordinated Care

Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; The Breakthroughs; Deinstitutionalization

Feedback

1 In her book Interpersonal Relations in Nursing (1952), Peplau brought together

interpersonal theories from psychiatry and melded them with theories of nursing

and communication.

2 Dr. Hattie Bessent is credited with the development and directorship of a grant

that researched minority nurses who were choosing to upgrade to master’s and

doctorate levels of practice.

3 Mary Mahoney is considered to be America’s first African American

professional nurse.

4 Linda Richards worked to upgrade nursing education, opened a nursing school,

and taught the care of the mentally ill.

PTS: 1

REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; The Trailblazers; Hildegard Peplau