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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?
Numbers of mental health hospitals
State funding for mental health care
Clinics supplemented by general hospital units
Use of psychotherapy by psychiatrists
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A nurse is reviewing the American Nurses Association's Statement on Psychiatric Nursing Practice published in 1967, which sanctioned the involvement of psychiatric–mental health nurses in the
2. 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? Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory
Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing
Hildegarde
Clifford Beers' A Mind That Found Itself
Peplau's Interpersonal Relations in Nursing
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A nursing instructor is preparing a presentation about key events and people that influenced the
3. development of contemporary mental health and illness care. When describing the effects of World
War II, which of the following would the instructor include?
People began to view mental illness as more commonplace and acceptable.
The biologic understanding of mental illness was almost fully developed.
Deinstitutionalization occurred in response to the community health movement.
Mental illnesses became categorized as psychoses or neuroses.
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A nursing student is presenting a discussion of the history of psychiatric–mental health nursing and its place within nursing history. Which of the following would be most appropriate to include?
Certification for the psychiatric–mental health nursing specialty was first