PMHNP BOARDS 2024 TEST BANK 2026
UPDATED QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
GRADED A+
⩥ Where to interview a patient? Answer: Private office with the door
open
⩥ Test taking strategies Answer: Narrow it down to 2 possible choices
When 2 choices are opposite, one is usually the answer
When answer options are very similar to each other, they are usually not
correct
Absolutes are usually incorrect
⩥ Test taking strategies 2 Answer: Assessment before intervention
Safety even before assessment
Choose the most comprehensive option
Safety plan is correct, NOT no harm contract
⩥ Tics are....? Answer: Contraindication of a stimulant
⩥ Before discharge....? Answer: Can a patient stay safe and cope
effectively
,⩥ Its important to build rapport with adolescents by.... Answer: Ensuring
confidentiality
⩥ What you can keep confidential for an adolescent patient: Answer: If
the patient is attracted to the same gender
If the patient is in a relationship with someone of the same age
⩥ What can cause ethical dilemma with parent and child? Answer:
Separating child from parent for interview, but remember that the child
is your primary patient and your patient has a right to confidentiality
⩥ What to do for a patient with bipolar disorder who is not taking
medications because they are forgetting? Answer: Behavioral therapy
⩥ Women may be at risk of suicide when....? Answer: They are
discharged home without an OB/GYN completing a risk assessment on
them
⩥ interprofessional collaboration Answer: is encouraged.
⩥ Delegation: Answer: Try not to delegate
,Pick the option where you do something yourself for the patient. Get
informed consent and fax the labs over for the patient, do not give them
their own labs to carry.
⩥ If a patient emails you about exacerbation of a symptom.....? Answer:
Call the patient and perform an assessment. You can't assess a patient
over online chat. You can't perform interventions until you talk to the
patient on the phone for real assessment.
⩥ Before referral...? Answer: See if there is something that you can do
for the patient
⩥ If culture is specified in a question..... Answer: Choose a culturally
sensitive answer. You do not necessarily need to refer a patient to a
provider who shares the same culture. You can provide culturally
sensitive care yourself.
⩥ The patient feels funny because they inhaled acetone..... Answer:
Order a urine drug screen for other substances before you refer them out.
⩥ A culture expected response to a stressor... Answer: Does not
necessarily indicate a mental health disorder.
Try to understand the context before diagnosing a disorder.
, ⩥ If someone presents with a cultural syndrome... Answer: Offer brief
supportive therapy
⩥ A patient has somatic complaints and their PCP can't find a medical
explanation for the pain.... Answer: Do a cultural assessment.
⩥ Native Americans: Answer: Believe that mental illness and substance
use disorders are caused by an imbalance with the world.
⩥ Native Americans 2: Answer: Have the highest rate of suicide and
suicide attempts
⩥ Confrontational answers are.... Answer: Usually incorrect
⩥ When providing psychoeducation to a patient of a specific culture:
Answer: The information should be based on cultural context
⩥ Native Americans 3: Answer: Use a healing stick; do not take the stick
away. Make accommodations for patients.
⩥ When serving a multicultural population: Answer: Provide
multicultural teaching; Use ethnospecific assessment parameters
UPDATED QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
GRADED A+
⩥ Where to interview a patient? Answer: Private office with the door
open
⩥ Test taking strategies Answer: Narrow it down to 2 possible choices
When 2 choices are opposite, one is usually the answer
When answer options are very similar to each other, they are usually not
correct
Absolutes are usually incorrect
⩥ Test taking strategies 2 Answer: Assessment before intervention
Safety even before assessment
Choose the most comprehensive option
Safety plan is correct, NOT no harm contract
⩥ Tics are....? Answer: Contraindication of a stimulant
⩥ Before discharge....? Answer: Can a patient stay safe and cope
effectively
,⩥ Its important to build rapport with adolescents by.... Answer: Ensuring
confidentiality
⩥ What you can keep confidential for an adolescent patient: Answer: If
the patient is attracted to the same gender
If the patient is in a relationship with someone of the same age
⩥ What can cause ethical dilemma with parent and child? Answer:
Separating child from parent for interview, but remember that the child
is your primary patient and your patient has a right to confidentiality
⩥ What to do for a patient with bipolar disorder who is not taking
medications because they are forgetting? Answer: Behavioral therapy
⩥ Women may be at risk of suicide when....? Answer: They are
discharged home without an OB/GYN completing a risk assessment on
them
⩥ interprofessional collaboration Answer: is encouraged.
⩥ Delegation: Answer: Try not to delegate
,Pick the option where you do something yourself for the patient. Get
informed consent and fax the labs over for the patient, do not give them
their own labs to carry.
⩥ If a patient emails you about exacerbation of a symptom.....? Answer:
Call the patient and perform an assessment. You can't assess a patient
over online chat. You can't perform interventions until you talk to the
patient on the phone for real assessment.
⩥ Before referral...? Answer: See if there is something that you can do
for the patient
⩥ If culture is specified in a question..... Answer: Choose a culturally
sensitive answer. You do not necessarily need to refer a patient to a
provider who shares the same culture. You can provide culturally
sensitive care yourself.
⩥ The patient feels funny because they inhaled acetone..... Answer:
Order a urine drug screen for other substances before you refer them out.
⩥ A culture expected response to a stressor... Answer: Does not
necessarily indicate a mental health disorder.
Try to understand the context before diagnosing a disorder.
, ⩥ If someone presents with a cultural syndrome... Answer: Offer brief
supportive therapy
⩥ A patient has somatic complaints and their PCP can't find a medical
explanation for the pain.... Answer: Do a cultural assessment.
⩥ Native Americans: Answer: Believe that mental illness and substance
use disorders are caused by an imbalance with the world.
⩥ Native Americans 2: Answer: Have the highest rate of suicide and
suicide attempts
⩥ Confrontational answers are.... Answer: Usually incorrect
⩥ When providing psychoeducation to a patient of a specific culture:
Answer: The information should be based on cultural context
⩥ Native Americans 3: Answer: Use a healing stick; do not take the stick
away. Make accommodations for patients.
⩥ When serving a multicultural population: Answer: Provide
multicultural teaching; Use ethnospecific assessment parameters
