GEORGETTE PMHNP EXAM 2026/2027
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
GRADED A+
A patient has been treated for the past several years with fluphenazine (Prolixin).
You tonic that he is drooling and has a slight pill rolling movement of the fingers.
These are EPS symptoms known as
A. pseudo parkinsonism
b. anticholinergic effects
C. Tardive dyskinesia
D. Acute dystonia
A. Pseudoparkinsonism
A patient is diagnosed with schizophrenia. Which of the following would be the
appropriate question for the PMHNP to ask when assessing side effects produced
by dopamine antagonism in the nigrostriatal pathway?
A. Are you experiencing constipation?
B. Are you experiencing pill rolling tremors, shuffling gait, and mask like facial
expression?
C. Are you experiencing increased thirst?
D. Are you experiencing breast discharge?
Are you experiencing pill rolling tremors, shuffling gait, and mask like facial
expression
,Fetal alcohol syndrome
Everything is low
low weight, small features of the face.
Which if the following antidepressants is associated with the most cardiovascular
side effects?
Citalopram--causes QT prolongation
What the body does to drugs?
Pharmacokinetics
What the drug does to the body
pharmacodynamics
The drug binds to the receptors and activates a biological response (opens the ion
channel)
agonist effect
drug causes the opposite effect of the agonist. Binds to the same receptor but closes
the channel
inverse agonist
,drug does not fully activate the receptor
partial agonist
drug binds to the receptor but foes not activate a biological response
antagonist
The study of what the drug does to the body.
Pharmacodynamics
When studying pharmacodynamics involving receptor, you know that an agonist
produces the following effect?
A. Does not fully activate the receptor
B. Blocks the agonist from opening the channel
C. Causes the opposite effect
D. Activates a biological response and opens the ion channel.
Activates a biological response and opens the channel.
Medications that can cause mania (very high yield)
Steroids
Antabuse
, Isoniazid
Antidepressants in persons with bipolar
Flonase
Medications causing depression
steroids
beta blockers
interferon
accutate
some retroviral drugs
antineoplastic drugs
benzos
progesterone
Fragile X syndrome
all their facial structures are larger.
Severe adverse effect caused by antipsychotics
neuroleptic malignant syndrome
Extreme muscle regidity
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
GRADED A+
A patient has been treated for the past several years with fluphenazine (Prolixin).
You tonic that he is drooling and has a slight pill rolling movement of the fingers.
These are EPS symptoms known as
A. pseudo parkinsonism
b. anticholinergic effects
C. Tardive dyskinesia
D. Acute dystonia
A. Pseudoparkinsonism
A patient is diagnosed with schizophrenia. Which of the following would be the
appropriate question for the PMHNP to ask when assessing side effects produced
by dopamine antagonism in the nigrostriatal pathway?
A. Are you experiencing constipation?
B. Are you experiencing pill rolling tremors, shuffling gait, and mask like facial
expression?
C. Are you experiencing increased thirst?
D. Are you experiencing breast discharge?
Are you experiencing pill rolling tremors, shuffling gait, and mask like facial
expression
,Fetal alcohol syndrome
Everything is low
low weight, small features of the face.
Which if the following antidepressants is associated with the most cardiovascular
side effects?
Citalopram--causes QT prolongation
What the body does to drugs?
Pharmacokinetics
What the drug does to the body
pharmacodynamics
The drug binds to the receptors and activates a biological response (opens the ion
channel)
agonist effect
drug causes the opposite effect of the agonist. Binds to the same receptor but closes
the channel
inverse agonist
,drug does not fully activate the receptor
partial agonist
drug binds to the receptor but foes not activate a biological response
antagonist
The study of what the drug does to the body.
Pharmacodynamics
When studying pharmacodynamics involving receptor, you know that an agonist
produces the following effect?
A. Does not fully activate the receptor
B. Blocks the agonist from opening the channel
C. Causes the opposite effect
D. Activates a biological response and opens the ion channel.
Activates a biological response and opens the channel.
Medications that can cause mania (very high yield)
Steroids
Antabuse
, Isoniazid
Antidepressants in persons with bipolar
Flonase
Medications causing depression
steroids
beta blockers
interferon
accutate
some retroviral drugs
antineoplastic drugs
benzos
progesterone
Fragile X syndrome
all their facial structures are larger.
Severe adverse effect caused by antipsychotics
neuroleptic malignant syndrome
Extreme muscle regidity
