2026 PMHNP QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔peripartum onset - ✔✔during pregnancy or within 1 month of having baby
✔✔problems with temporal lobe - ✔✔aphasia and amnesia
✔✔problems with occipital lobe - ✔✔visual field deficits
✔✔problems with parietal lobe - ✔✔sensory perceptual disturbances and agnosia
✔✔aphasia - ✔✔loss of ability to express or understand speech
✔✔apraxia - ✔✔difficulty planning and performing motor tasks
✔✔sertraline may show up as what on drug test? - ✔✔benzodiazepine
✔✔sensorimotor stage - ✔✔birth to 2
- object permanence
✔✔preoperational - ✔✔2 to 5
- egocentrism
- transdutive reasoning (dog barks and train arrives -- this means train comes when dog
barks)
- concrete thinking
- language
- symbolism
✔✔concrete operations - ✔✔6-11
- develop conservation
- develop reversibility ( if object is altered, it can be changed back)
- decentration (paying attention to multiple parts)
-inductive logic (using several instances to make a prediction)
,✔✔formal operations - ✔✔adolescence
- deductive reasoning (using a general principle to predict an outcome)
- abstract thought
- metacognition
- problem solving
✔✔margaret - ✔✔cultural conditioning of sexual behavior
✔✔florence nightingale - ✔✔founder of modern nursing
✔✔Dorothea Dix - ✔✔nurse that fought for the rights of the mentally ill
✔✔Margaret Sanger - ✔✔founder of planned parenthood
✔✔Virginia Henderson - ✔✔Developed the nursing theory
✔✔Henry Sack Sullivan - ✔✔- developed Interpersonal theory
- relationships influence personality development , called self-system
- drive for satisfaction and drive for security
-
✔✔Maslow hierarchy of needs - ✔✔- water
- air
- food
- sleep
✔✔Sullivan stages of development
- infancy
- childhood
- juvenile
- preadolescence
- early adolescence
- late adolescence - ✔✔- infancy - oral gratification, anxiety occurs
- childhood - delayed gratification
- juvenile - forming of peer relationships
- preadolescence - same sex relationships
- early adolescence - opposite sex relationships
- late adolescence - self identity development
✔✔Prochaska developed - ✔✔stages of change
✔✔Madeline Leininger - ✔✔Theory of cultural care
- regardless of culture, care is the unifying focus and essence of nursing
,✔✔Dorothy Orem - ✔✔- Theory of self-care
- self care is activities that maintain life, health, and well being
✔✔Hildegard Peplau - ✔✔- interpersonal nursing
- first significant psychiatric nursing theory
- orientation, working, termination phase
- promoting adaptive responses is goal of nursing
-
✔✔Jean Watson - ✔✔Caring theory
- caring is most important
- carative factors potentiate therapeutic healing and relationships
✔✔hierarchy of qualitative research - ✔✔- meta analysis of RTCs
- evidence based guidelines based on systematic review
- non randomized RCT
- evidence from review of qualitative
- evidence from expert
✔✔larger variance means - ✔✔larger dispersion of scores around the mean
✔✔ANOVA - ✔✔- inferential statistic
- test the differences among 3 or more groups
✔✔probability - ✔✔between 0 and 1
✔✔p = 0.1 means - ✔✔there is a 1% probability of obtaining result by chance alone
✔✔Arnold Lazarua - ✔✔- behavioral therapy
- exposures, relaxation, problem solving, role playing
✔✔Viktor Frankl - ✔✔Existential therapy
- why am i here? what is my purpose? Focus on taking responsibility.
✔✔Interpersonal THERAPY created by - ✔✔Gerald Klerman and Myrna Weissman
- also used for bipolar, substance use, and eating disorders
✔✔Murray Bowen - ✔✔Family Systems theory
- focus on chronic anxiety in family
- increase self- differntiation
- multitransmission process is dysfunction over several decades
✔✔Strategic Therapy - ✔✔symptoms viewed as metaphors
- techniques that change interactions
, - straightforward directives are tasks that are designed in expectation of the family
member compliance
- paradoxical directives - a negative task that is assigned when family member is
expected to be noncompliant
- reframing belief system - negative relabeled to have positive meaning
✔✔Solution focused therapy - ✔✔Use solutions that worked previously
- miracle questions
- excpetion finding questions
- scaling questions
✔✔mind body interventions - ✔✔yoga
biofeedback
meditation
guided imagery
✔✔biological therapies - ✔✔herbs
vitamins
supplements
aromatherapy
✔✔CYP450 inducers - ✔✔carbamezapine
St John Wart
Phenytoin
Phenobarbital
Tobacco
✔✔CYP450 inhibitors - ✔✔SSRIs
Duloxetine
grape fruit juice
Bupropion
Clarithromycin
Clomipromine
Cimetidine
✔✔Sam E - ✔✔depression, osteroarthritis
- may cause hypomanic, serotonin syndrome
✔✔Existential Therapy - ✔✔- focus on taking ultimate responsibility for life
- life is unfair at times
- there is no escape for some problems
- you are alone in life ultimately
- must face issues of life death
✔✔The ego says - ✔✔I evaluate
✔✔peripartum onset - ✔✔during pregnancy or within 1 month of having baby
✔✔problems with temporal lobe - ✔✔aphasia and amnesia
✔✔problems with occipital lobe - ✔✔visual field deficits
✔✔problems with parietal lobe - ✔✔sensory perceptual disturbances and agnosia
✔✔aphasia - ✔✔loss of ability to express or understand speech
✔✔apraxia - ✔✔difficulty planning and performing motor tasks
✔✔sertraline may show up as what on drug test? - ✔✔benzodiazepine
✔✔sensorimotor stage - ✔✔birth to 2
- object permanence
✔✔preoperational - ✔✔2 to 5
- egocentrism
- transdutive reasoning (dog barks and train arrives -- this means train comes when dog
barks)
- concrete thinking
- language
- symbolism
✔✔concrete operations - ✔✔6-11
- develop conservation
- develop reversibility ( if object is altered, it can be changed back)
- decentration (paying attention to multiple parts)
-inductive logic (using several instances to make a prediction)
,✔✔formal operations - ✔✔adolescence
- deductive reasoning (using a general principle to predict an outcome)
- abstract thought
- metacognition
- problem solving
✔✔margaret - ✔✔cultural conditioning of sexual behavior
✔✔florence nightingale - ✔✔founder of modern nursing
✔✔Dorothea Dix - ✔✔nurse that fought for the rights of the mentally ill
✔✔Margaret Sanger - ✔✔founder of planned parenthood
✔✔Virginia Henderson - ✔✔Developed the nursing theory
✔✔Henry Sack Sullivan - ✔✔- developed Interpersonal theory
- relationships influence personality development , called self-system
- drive for satisfaction and drive for security
-
✔✔Maslow hierarchy of needs - ✔✔- water
- air
- food
- sleep
✔✔Sullivan stages of development
- infancy
- childhood
- juvenile
- preadolescence
- early adolescence
- late adolescence - ✔✔- infancy - oral gratification, anxiety occurs
- childhood - delayed gratification
- juvenile - forming of peer relationships
- preadolescence - same sex relationships
- early adolescence - opposite sex relationships
- late adolescence - self identity development
✔✔Prochaska developed - ✔✔stages of change
✔✔Madeline Leininger - ✔✔Theory of cultural care
- regardless of culture, care is the unifying focus and essence of nursing
,✔✔Dorothy Orem - ✔✔- Theory of self-care
- self care is activities that maintain life, health, and well being
✔✔Hildegard Peplau - ✔✔- interpersonal nursing
- first significant psychiatric nursing theory
- orientation, working, termination phase
- promoting adaptive responses is goal of nursing
-
✔✔Jean Watson - ✔✔Caring theory
- caring is most important
- carative factors potentiate therapeutic healing and relationships
✔✔hierarchy of qualitative research - ✔✔- meta analysis of RTCs
- evidence based guidelines based on systematic review
- non randomized RCT
- evidence from review of qualitative
- evidence from expert
✔✔larger variance means - ✔✔larger dispersion of scores around the mean
✔✔ANOVA - ✔✔- inferential statistic
- test the differences among 3 or more groups
✔✔probability - ✔✔between 0 and 1
✔✔p = 0.1 means - ✔✔there is a 1% probability of obtaining result by chance alone
✔✔Arnold Lazarua - ✔✔- behavioral therapy
- exposures, relaxation, problem solving, role playing
✔✔Viktor Frankl - ✔✔Existential therapy
- why am i here? what is my purpose? Focus on taking responsibility.
✔✔Interpersonal THERAPY created by - ✔✔Gerald Klerman and Myrna Weissman
- also used for bipolar, substance use, and eating disorders
✔✔Murray Bowen - ✔✔Family Systems theory
- focus on chronic anxiety in family
- increase self- differntiation
- multitransmission process is dysfunction over several decades
✔✔Strategic Therapy - ✔✔symptoms viewed as metaphors
- techniques that change interactions
, - straightforward directives are tasks that are designed in expectation of the family
member compliance
- paradoxical directives - a negative task that is assigned when family member is
expected to be noncompliant
- reframing belief system - negative relabeled to have positive meaning
✔✔Solution focused therapy - ✔✔Use solutions that worked previously
- miracle questions
- excpetion finding questions
- scaling questions
✔✔mind body interventions - ✔✔yoga
biofeedback
meditation
guided imagery
✔✔biological therapies - ✔✔herbs
vitamins
supplements
aromatherapy
✔✔CYP450 inducers - ✔✔carbamezapine
St John Wart
Phenytoin
Phenobarbital
Tobacco
✔✔CYP450 inhibitors - ✔✔SSRIs
Duloxetine
grape fruit juice
Bupropion
Clarithromycin
Clomipromine
Cimetidine
✔✔Sam E - ✔✔depression, osteroarthritis
- may cause hypomanic, serotonin syndrome
✔✔Existential Therapy - ✔✔- focus on taking ultimate responsibility for life
- life is unfair at times
- there is no escape for some problems
- you are alone in life ultimately
- must face issues of life death
✔✔The ego says - ✔✔I evaluate
