ANCC PMHNP CERTIFICATION EXAM
1. any event that alters patient progress toward expected outcomes (practitioner
competency, severity of illness)
Answer: variance
2. mathematical expression that shows the relationship between an individual's
health and a number of other variables, including the amount of health care
consumed (multiple choice: health alliance, health economics, health care system,
health production function)
Answer: health production function
3. describes the organizational and institutional structures through which an
economy makes choices regarding production, consumption, and distribution of
medical services (multiple choice: health alliance, health economics, health care
system, health production function)
Answer: health care system
4. related to the value, effectiveness, and efficiency of care received (multiple
choice: health alliance, health economics, health care system, health produc- tion
function)
Answer: health economics
5. public agency that uses its bargaining power to negotiate competitive prices for
health insurance from the private insurance market (multiple choice:health alliance,
health economics, health care system, health production function)
Answer: health alliance
6. What defense mechanism is patient using that is causing her to see peopleas either
all good or all evil
Answer: Splitting
7. which school was the site of the first NP program
Answer: University of Colorado
8. A medication with a lower therapeutic index is a [higher/lower?] margin of
safety
Answer: Lower (ex: lithium)
9. HAM-A, Zung's Anxiety Sclae, and Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale
(Y-BOCS) are all measures for anxiety; GAD-7 is 7-ques-tion _
Answer: standardized rating measure; screening tool
10. stroke symptoms impact Wernicke's area, which functions as
1. any event that alters patient progress toward expected outcomes (practitioner
competency, severity of illness)
Answer: variance
2. mathematical expression that shows the relationship between an individual's
health and a number of other variables, including the amount of health care
consumed (multiple choice: health alliance, health economics, health care system,
health production function)
Answer: health production function
3. describes the organizational and institutional structures through which an
economy makes choices regarding production, consumption, and distribution of
medical services (multiple choice: health alliance, health economics, health care
system, health production function)
Answer: health care system
4. related to the value, effectiveness, and efficiency of care received (multiple
choice: health alliance, health economics, health care system, health produc- tion
function)
Answer: health economics
5. public agency that uses its bargaining power to negotiate competitive prices for
health insurance from the private insurance market (multiple choice:health alliance,
health economics, health care system, health production function)
Answer: health alliance
6. What defense mechanism is patient using that is causing her to see peopleas either
all good or all evil
Answer: Splitting
7. which school was the site of the first NP program
Answer: University of Colorado
8. A medication with a lower therapeutic index is a [higher/lower?] margin of
safety
Answer: Lower (ex: lithium)
9. HAM-A, Zung's Anxiety Sclae, and Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale
(Y-BOCS) are all measures for anxiety; GAD-7 is 7-ques-tion _
Answer: standardized rating measure; screening tool
10. stroke symptoms impact Wernicke's area, which functions as
