(PN Mental Health) Neeb's Fundamentals of Mental Health Nursing
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Who has been called the founder of nursing?
The mortality rate went from 42.7% to 2.2% - correct answer-Who is Florence Nightingale?
Who was a school teacher, not a nurse?
Her primary focus was on the care of prisoners and the mentally ill? - correct answer-Who is
Dorothea Dix?
Who opened the Boston City Hospital Training School for Nurses?
It was opened to specialize care for the mentally ill. - correct answer-Linda Richards.
What organizations helped develop schools and programs to teach nurses how to properly care
for the mentally ill? - correct answer-American Nurses Association (ANA)
National League for Nursing (NLN)
Who initiated the first psychiatric program of study for nurses? - correct answer-Effie Jane
Taylor
Dr. Peplau believed nurses should provide type of services? - correct answer-She believed that
nurses should take every opportunity to educate the public and be role models.
1. Resource person, provides information
2.Counselor, helps patients to explore their thoughts and feelings
3. Surrogate, role-playing or other means to help the pt explore and identify feelings from the
past
4. Technical support, coordinates professional services.
How did Dr. Peplau see the nurse as? - correct answer-A resource person, provides info
A counselor, helps patients to explore their feelings
Surrogate, role-play scenarios
Technical support, coordinate professional services
What are the 4 stages of a therapeutic relationship, between a nurse and patient.
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(Peplau,, 1952) - correct answer-1. Orientation, Pt feels a need and a will to seek out help
2.Identification, nurse-pt relationship are identified
3.Exploration, pt will begin to show motivation in problem-solving, may test the nurse
4. Resolution, Focus in pts developing self-responsibility and showing personal growth
Who standardizes the nursing practice in the United states> - correct answer-The ANA
Every state has adopted its own code or set of rules by which all nurses are expected to
perform, which is this known as? - correct answer-The Nurse Practice Act
What organization is dedicated exclusively to the promotion of quality nursing for LPNs and
LVNs? - correct answer-NAPNES
What was the 1st major law addressing mental health, and it provided money to build
psychiatric units in hospitals? - correct answer-The Hill-Burton Act
What major breakthrough of the 1950s lead to the deinstitutionalization movement? - correct
answer-development of psychotropic medications
What group of psychotropic medication came out in the 1950s? - correct answer-
phenothiazines, calming and tranquilizing effect on people.
What are the parts of communication theory? - correct answer-sender
message
receiver
What is aggressive communication? - correct answer-Communication that is not self-
responsible.
"you"
What is assertive communication? - correct answer-Self-responsible communication
"i"
What is active and purposeful listening "listening between the lines" used for? - correct
answer-Successful therapeutic communication
What is ethics? - correct answer-They are one's own values
What is proxemics? - correct answer-It concerns space, time, and waiting.
US-northern states tend to be more rushed, vs southern states life is a bit slower-paced
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of Mental Health Nursing
What is HIPAA? - correct answer-Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
This allows communication between medical information between patients, providers,
employers and insurers. It allows more control of the part of the patient as to what part his/her
information is disclosed. - correct answer-HIPAA
What is the leading national accrediting body of health-care organizations? - correct answer-
Joint Commission
What are the goals of the Joint Commission? - correct answer--Have a commitment of quality
on a daily basis within the entire facility.
-Reducing the risk of undesirable patient outcomes
-encouraging continuous improvement
What is the average length of an involuntary commitment? - correct answer-48-72 hours
What is patient advocacy? - correct answer-Being a voice for your patient to ensure they get
the best fair treatment
What is ethnicity defined as? - correct answer-It identifies a person with his or her shared
heritage, such as their language, skin color
What type of parent sets up strict rules, while the child has little or no voice in family decisions?
- correct answer-Authoritarian parent
What type of parent has firm, consistent rules and limits, while allowing for discussion and
occasional flexibility of those rules? - correct answer-Authoritative parent
What are some common reasons of homelessness? - correct answer-Economic setbacks
Major health expenses
Mental health
What does the mental health exam include? - correct answer-1.Level of awareness and
orientation
2.Appearance and behavior
3.Speech and communication
4.Mood and affect
5.Memory
6.Thinking/cognition
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7.Peception
8.Judgement
How would you check a person's orientation? - correct answer-You may ask them things like
"Where are you know?"
"Tell me what day it is"
"Who is the current president?"
oriented x3
How would you assess a persons mood and affect? - correct answer-Make sure their facial
expression and body language matches with their stated mood.'
Defense mechanisms
Person states
"I can quit anytime I want to" - correct answer-Denial
Defense mechanism
"I failed my test because the teacher wrote bad questions" - correct answer-rationalization
Defense mechanism
Physically unattractive person who wants to model instead becomes a famous designer. -
correct answer-Compensation
Defense mechanism
During a serious illness, patient exhibits behaviors more appropriate for a younger
developmental age. - correct answer-Regression
Defense mechanism
People who chose not to have children, run a daycare - correct answer-sublimation
unacceptable traits or characteristics are diverted into acceptable traits.
defense mechanism
wife states "my husband is worried about going home"
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