PREPARATION TEST 2026 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
● Pre Briefing Question 2. Answer: I would anticipate that the patient is
prescribed some 2nd generation antipsychotics along side mood
stabilizers and Anti-Anxiety meds. These medications would help
decrease his hallucination and positive negative symptoms while helping
to stabilize his mood swings and bouts of anxiety that accompany the
hallucination and psychosis.
● Pre brief Question 3. Answer: I would anticipate that the HCP may
prescribe the patient Lithium or Valproate (mood stabilizers), 1st / 2nd
Generation antipsychotics, and Benzodiazepine. The antipsychotics help
with hallucinations, and mood stabilizers aid with mood instability. With
Benzo, it's for short term agitation and anxiety. If the patient has EPS
from 1st Gen antipsychotics, we can also give anticholinergics to help
minimize those symptoms. Finally, if any issues involve insomnia,
sleeping aids would help, like Zolpidem.
● Pre brief 4. Answer: For discharge, the same drug classes that he has
been administered during his hospitalization would be a good guess. A
2nd gen is an antipsychotic with a mood stabilizer, and a non-
benzodiazepine would help with minimizing symptoms, insomnia and
stabilizing the mood.
, ● Comparison of Case. Answer: 1. Recent Job Loss
2. Cannabis Use
3. Inattentive and Preoccupied
4. Poverty of Speech
5. Family Member with persistent mental health problems
6. Headache
7. Tobacco Use
8. mumbling quietly to himself
9. Psychological Stress/ Distress
● Health History. Answer: 1. Hears Voice
2. Headache
3. Nonadherence to pharmacology
4. Cannabis Use
● Physical Assessment. Answer: 1. Memory problem
2. Inattentive
3. Bothered by external stimuli
● Analyzes : Characterize findings. Answer: No Change:
Cannabis (HX and EHR)
Inattentive,