CHAPTER 2 Psychiatric Nursing Evolution of a Specialty

CHAPTER 2 Psychiatric Nursing Evolution of a Specialty

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TRUE/FALSE

1. In nursing schools in the late 19th century and early 20th century in this country, nurses for clients with medical problems and nurses for clients with mental problems were usually educated separately.

ANS:  T                    PTS:   1

2. In the 19th century, nurses who were trained to work with people who were physically ill had nurses as teachers, while those nurses who were trained to work with people who were mentally ill had physicians as teachers.

ANS:  T                    PTS:   1

3. Various societies at times throughout history have treated people who were mentally ill with reverence.

ANS:  T                    PTS:   1

4. Mental illness has always been viewed as an illness or a disease.

ANS:  F                    PTS:   1

5. The term lunatic came from the idea in the Middle Ages and Renaissance that the lunar body controlled people who are mentally ill.

ANS:  T                    PTS:   1