Deck 2: Historical Overview of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

Question 1

Which was instrumental in the establishment of a psychiatry rotation to the nursing curriculum of Eastern and Atlantic Canada?

A) Dorothea Dix
B) The "Weir Report"
C) The Canadian Nurses Association
D) The Canadian Medical Association

Answer 1

The "Weir Report"

Question 2

The first psychiatric nurse training program in Canada was in which of the following provinces?

A) Alberta
B) Québec
C) Ontario
D) British Columbia

Answer 2

Ontario

Question 3

Who was instrumental in lobbying for the first mental health hospital in the United States and for reform in British and Canadian institutions?

A) Michel Foucault
B) Dorothea Dix
C) The Grey Nuns
D) Philippe Pinel

Answer 3

Dorothea Dix

Question 4

Which are historical approaches to caring for people with mental illness from Indigenous people's perspective?

A) Sweat lodges
B) Restraint and confinement
C) Sundance
D) Potlatch
E) Abandonment

Question 5

The first asylum in Canada was in which of the following provinces?

A) Alberta
B) Québec
C) Ontario
D) British Columbia

Question 6

By the end of the nineteenth century, the new field of psychiatry was being challenged to provide a medical cure for mental illness. Which experimental treatments were used at that time?

A) Leeching
B) Hydrotherapy
C) Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
D) Insulin shock treatment
E) Milieu management therapy

Question 7

The nurse is caring for a patient in an asylum in the mid-1800s in Canada. What would the nurse expect to implement?

A) Assisting with eating and dressing
B) Group therapy interventions
C) Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
D) Antipsychotic medication administration

Question 8

Which of the following has largely been excluded from Canadian nursing history?

A) Female nurses' role in psychiatric nursing
B) Mental health field of study
C) Male attendants' role in institutions
D) Generalist registered nurses' role

Question 9

Which of the following represented a seventeenth- to eighteenth-century societal view of people with mental illness?

A) Restraints were not to be used on mentally ill patients.
B) Those with mental illness were immune to human discomforts.
C) Informed consent was required prior to admission to an asylum.
D) Patient neglect rarely if ever occurred in asylums.

Question 10

Which is true of asylums?

A) Short-term stays
B) Cognitive-behavioural therapy experts
C) Place where people with mental illness could be cured
D) Middle to upper socioeconomic status patients with mental illness received treatment

Question 11

The Canadian National Association of Trained Nurses was established in which of the following years?

A) 1898
B) 1908
C) 1918
D) 1928

Question 12

The exclusion of males from attending psychiatric nurse training programs hindered which of the following?

A) The availability of students to enter the training program
B) The ability of institutions to maintain enough trained nursing staff
C) The recognition of the importance of nursing knowledge and skills
D) The status of female nurses by lowering their status