PMHNP Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Final Exam 2025 Prep Questions and Answers passed

Fitzgerald PMHNP Psychiatric-Mental
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Absolute Risk Reduction - (ARR)The risk in a control group minus the risk in
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a treatment group -


The concomitant use of MAOIs and St. - John's wort can lead
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toserotonin syndrome - Relative Risk Reduction (RRR)The
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percentage of risk removed by the treatment


True randomization - sampleno bias in sample selection
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Stratified samplea - - selective reproduction of
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the -

population non-probability samplinga sampling technique in

which there is no - way to
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calculate the - likelihood that a specific element of the population
being studied will be chosen


- Reliabilitythe concept that results can be repeated and are not
just a ANSWER fluke
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- ValidityThe results indicate what the researcher thinks they
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- Internal validityincludes research design and steps of the
scientific ANSWER method
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External - validityincludes assessment of the interference's or causal
relationship ANSWER
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Fitzgerald PMHNP Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Final Exam 2025
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,Retrospective - studyexisting data are analyzed, either qualitatively or
quantitatively ANSWER
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- VeracityThe healthcare provider must be truthful and
avoid ANSWER deception
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LACE - EssentialsLicensure
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Accreditation

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Certification

Education

Licensuregranting

of authority to

practice



Primary - prevention-preventing the health problem
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-most cost- - effective form of healthcare

- immunizations


Secondary - prevention-detecting the disease
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-screening -


Tertiary - prevention-minimizing negative disease induced
outcomes ANSWER
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-disease already present

-adjust therapy to avoid further damage


Conditions that originate during brain - development-schizophrenia,
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depression, autism, ADHD -


The Reptilian - BrainBrainstem and Cerebellum
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Brainstem - StructurePons, medulla oblongata, midbrain
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Fitzgerald PMHNP- Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Final Exam 2025
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,Brainstem - Function-Regulates blood pressure, respiration, level of
arousal, and ANSWER
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digestion - Information relay to cerebellum


Brainstem effects of - damageimpaired inhibition, anxiety, depression,
and ANSWER
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personality changes


Brainstem specific psychiatric - conditionsPTSD, paralysis, psychosis,
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coma, and death -


Cerebellum - functioncoordinates balance, posture,
movement, ANSWER memory, impulse
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control, cognition, language


Cerebellum effects of - damagedamage can cause ataxia, tremors,
emotional ANSWER
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blunting, and

lack of inhibition


cerebellum specific psychiatric - conditionsautism and ADHD,
depression, bipolar ANSWER
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do, schizophrenia


The emotional - brainThe Limbic System
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The Limbic - system major structuresAmygdala,
Hippocampus ANSWER
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Amygdala key - functionsRegulates basic, powerful
emotions: fear, ANSWER rage, sexual
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desire


Amygdala effects of - damageIrritability, anger, aggression
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Amygdala specific - psychiatric conditionsPTSD, panic do,
depression, autism, ANSWER
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and schizophrenia




Fitzgerald PMHNP Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Final Exam 2025
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, Hippocampus key - functionsInvolved in memory and converting short-
term ANSWER
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memory into long- term memory, learning


Hippocampus effects of - damageImpaired memory and attention
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Hippocampus specific - psychiatric conditionsPTSD,
Alzheimer's, dementia, ANSWER and
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major depression


Thalamus key - functions-relay station that connects the cortex to the
limbic ANSWER
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system for sensory information

-Influences affect, mood, and body movements associated with strong emotion


Thalamus effects of - damageimpairment when people are
overwhelmed with ANSWER
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information


Thalamus specific - - psychiatric conditionsSchizophrenia,
PTSD, memory ANSWER ANSWER problems Hypothalamus key
functionsmaintains - - homeostasis, controls basic needs
(eating,

drinking, temperature regulation, sleep-wake cycle)


Hypothalamus specific psychiatric - conditionsDepression, anorexia,
violence ANSWER
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Hypothalamus effects of - damagedisturbed sleep, eating,
changes in body ANSWER
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temperature,

emotional

instability


Cerebral - Cortexfrontal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, temporal
lobe ANSWER
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The - thinking brainCerebral cortex
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Fitzgerald PMHNP Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Final Exam 2025
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