ANCC PMHNP ACTUAL EXAM SCRIPT 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+

ANCC PMHNP ACTUAL EXAM SCRIPT 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔MMR - ✔✔not for pregnant women, weakened immune system, people taking
steroids, or recent blood transfusion

✔✔TDAP - ✔✔age 11, then q10y

✔✔Shingles - ✔✔> 60 who has had chicken pox, do not give to weakened immune
system, high-dose steroids

✔✔Varicella - ✔✔not for pregnant women, weakened immune systems, cancer,
steroids, or recent blood transfusion

✔✔Women preventative health screenings - ✔✔Monthly skin and oral self-exams
Yearly blood pressure, bloodwork, urinalysis, PE, pap (2-3y after age 21 or within 3
years of first sexual encounter), pelvic exam, STI detection
Q4y ECG after age 40
Q2y mammogram after age 50
Bone density screening after age 65
Colonoscopy q10y

✔✔Men preventative health screenings - ✔✔Monthly testicle, skin, and oral self-exam
Yearly blood pressure, bloodwork, urinalysis, PE
Q4y ECG after age 40
Q19y colonoscopy

✔✔AIMS - ✔✔clinician administered, testing for dyskinesia as a result of psychotropic
meds,
⇒ Score >2 = TD

✔✔BARS - ✔✔clinician administered, testing for drug-induced akasthisia, objective and
subjective
⇒ Score >2 = akasthisia

✔✔Connor's - ✔✔self, parent, teacher reported or clinician administered, testing for
pediatric ADHD, short and long form, subsets for other common pediatric psych
diagnoses
⇒ Score > 61 = mild ADHD, score > 70 = severe ADHD

✔✔Vanderbilt - ✔✔parent and teacher report, testing for ADHD in ages 6-12, academic
and behavioral assessment

✔✔ASRS - ✔✔self-report or clinician-administered, testing for ADHD in ages 16 and up,
includes items assessing quality of symptoms

, ✔✔AUDIT-C - ✔✔self-report or clinician-administered, testing for use and frequency of
alcohol and drug use in ages > 13
⇒ Females > 3 = positive, males > 4 = positive, score > 8 = hazardous

✔✔CAGE - ✔✔- self-report or clinician administered, testing for substance use in ages
>13
⇒ Score > 2 may indicate dependence

✔✔CRAFFT - ✔✔self-reported or clinician-administered, testing for ETOH and safety in
ages 14-18
⇒ Score > 2 may indicate substance abuse

✔✔BAI - ✔✔self-report or clinician-administered, testing for anxiety symptoms (but not
worry) in ages > 17
⇒ Score < 21 = mild, 22-25 = moderate, 25-30 = severe

✔✔HAM-A - ✔✔clinician administered, testing for anxiety/fear/sleep
disturbance/somatic complains/tension/behavior
⇒ Score 14-17 = mild, 18-24 = moderate, 25-30 = severe

✔✔LSAS-CA - ✔✔clinician administered, testing for social anxiety/phobia in pediatrics,
assesses social interactions and performance situations, includes fear and avoidance
⇒ Score 55-65 = moderate, 65-80 = marked, 80-95 = severe, >95 = severe

✔✔MMSE - ✔✔clinician-administered, testing cognitive impairment but not
dementia/delirium/frontal lobe impairment
⇒ Score 18-23, mild impairment, 0-17, severe impairment

✔✔MOCA - ✔✔clinician administered, testing cognitive
function/attention/memory/language/abstraction/visual/orientation
⇒ Score >26 = normal

✔✔SPMSQ - ✔✔clinician administered, quick, testing for cognitive impairment
⇒ Score > 3 = dementia

✔✔BDI - ✔✔self reported or clinician administered, testing for depression in ages >13
⇒ Score 11-17 = mild, 18-23 = moderate, 24+ = severe

✔✔CCSD - ✔✔self-reported or clinician administered, semistructured interview testing
depression and dementia
⇒ Score 8-17 = probable depression, >18 = definite depression

✔✔GDS - ✔✔self-report or clinician administered, testing depression in age >65