The nursing student is asked which historical event was most significant in the development of psychiatric nursing as a specialty and psychotherapeutic roles for nurses
Which response by the nursing student indicates understanding of important events related to development of the psychiatric nursing role? 1. Release of the report Nursing for the Future
2. Passage of the Community Mental Health Centers Act
3. Publication of Commonsense Psychiatry
4. Passage of the National Mental Health Act
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Rationale: The National Mental Health Act of 1946 is probably the most significant piece of legislation affecting the development of psychiatric–mental health nursing. Within this act, psychiatric nursing was added to psychiatry, psychology, and social work as a field in which the highest priority became the preparation of clinically capable persons for positions of leadership. Commonsense Psychiatry, written by Adolf Meyer, had great impact on psychiatry; however, it did not have a noticeable influence on psychiatric nursing. Nursing for the Future eliminated single-focus schools of psychiatric nursing. The Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963 encouraged the closing of large mental hospitals and further encouraged the trend toward expanded nursing roles at the graduate level.
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