NUR 2459 Exam 1 Review
- Hippocrates theorized that mental illness was caused by irregularity in interactions of what
body fluid?
Answer
blood, black bile, yellow bile and phlegm
- Benjamin Rush, often called the father of American psychiatry. Although he included
kindness, exercise and socialization in his care, he also employed what?
Answer
bloodletting, purging, various types of physical restraints, and extremes of temperatures
- The emergence of psychiatric nursing began in with the
graduation of Linda Richards the first psychiatric nurse from the nursing program a the New England hospital for women and children in Boston
Answer
1873
- The 19th century brought the establishment of a system of state asylums, largely the result
of the work of whom?
Answer
Dorothea Dix
- With the increasing need for psychiatric care in the aftermath of WWII, the governent
passed the National Mental Health Act of ?
Answer 1 / 3
1946
- Significant change in psychiatric nursing education did not occur until 1955, when
incorporation of psychiatric nursing into the curricula became a requirement for all undergraduate schools of nursing
Answer
1955
- Early 1950s the use of the was discovered to help control behaviors to
control and improve / clear thinking
Answer
Phenothiazine (Thorazine)
- Therapeutic care reverted to custodial care in state hospitals, which provided the largest
resource for individuals with mental illness until the initiation of the community health movement of the .
Answer
1960s
- Mentally ill clinets in asylums had received what type of care prior to the 1950s?
Answer
Custodial care
- Somatic therapy as a nursing intervention included what type of treatments ?
Answer 2 / 3
Insulin and ECT
- Who was responsible for developing the theory of "Interpersonal relation- ships"?
Answer
Hildegard Peplau
- With the increasing need for psychiatric care in the aftermath of
, the government passed the national alliance for mental health act of 1946
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WWII
- Which of the following is a grass roots organization that seeks to improve quality of life for
persons with mental illness?
Answer
National alliance on mental illness (NAMI)
- A man who has a bad day at the office and comes home shouting at his wife and kids is
demonstrating the defense mechanism of
Answer
Displacement
- Altruism
- / 3
Answer