CMN 548 TEST PAPER CORRECT QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Affect - ✔✔Your own impression of someone's emotional state and includes terms
like normal, happy, sad, anxious, angry, or indifferent
✔✔Mood - ✔✔A patient's subjective report of how he feels
✔✔Temperament - ✔✔How someone acts and approaches the world
✔✔Substance detection in urine - ✔✔Alcohol: 7-12hrs, Amphetamines: 48-72hrs,
Benzodiazepines: 3 days
✔✔Causes of decreased blood urea nitrogen (BUN) - ✔✔Liver failure, acromegaly,
malnutrition, impaired absorption, nephrotic syndrome, SIADH
✔✔Causes of hypercalcemia - ✔✔Vitamin D, milk, antacids, thiazides
✔✔Purpose of differential diagnosis - ✔✔To consider all possible options before making
a final diagnosis so that life-threatening conditions or medical conditions are not
overlooked. Allows appropriate treatment to be identified. Will help the clinician
establish the most accurate final diagnosis.
, ✔✔False elevation in folate test - ✔✔Hemolyzed specimens, iron-deficiency anemia
✔✔Psychiatric symptoms of hypothyroidism - ✔✔Not provided in the notes
✔✔Hemolyzed specimens - ✔✔Iron-deficiency anemia
✔✔Recommended baseline labs prior to lithium treatment - ✔✔BMP, TSH, CBC,
Calcium, Preg test
✔✔Most widely used instrument for cognitive impairment - ✔✔MMSE
✔✔Diagnostic group with low magnesium levels - ✔✔Alcoholics
✔✔Instrument measuring symptoms of schizophrenia - ✔✔PANSS
✔✔Clinical disorders causing hypokalemia - ✔✔CF, chronic alcoholism, Bartter
syndrome, malabsorption, diarrhea, vomiting, sweating, aldosteronism, draining
wounds, etc.
✔✔Types of immature defense mechanisms - ✔✔Acting out, blocking, hypochondriasis,
introjection, passive-aggressive behavior, projection, regression, schizoid fantasy,
somatization
✔✔Purpose of drawing labs in psychiatry - ✔✔Gain additional information about a
person's illness and if it creating psychotic-like symptoms
✔✔Benefit of developing a treatment plan - ✔✔Patient adherence, provides a guide to
treatment for both therapist and client, can reduce risk of fraud, waste, abuse, and the
potential to cause unintentional harm to clients. Facilitate easy and effective billing since
all services rendered are documented
✔✔SMART treatment goals - ✔✔Specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-
bound
✔✔Benefit of evidence-based practice guidelines - ✔✔To encourage the use of safe
and effective treatments likely to achieve results
✔✔AIMS measure - ✔✔Clinical exam and rating scale developed to measure dyskinetic
symptoms in patients taking antipsychotics. 12 items with 1-4 scale.
✔✔Instruments to assess symptoms of depression - ✔✔PHQ-9, HAM-D, BDI
✔✔Instruments to assess symptoms of anxiety - ✔✔GAD-7, HAM-A
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Affect - ✔✔Your own impression of someone's emotional state and includes terms
like normal, happy, sad, anxious, angry, or indifferent
✔✔Mood - ✔✔A patient's subjective report of how he feels
✔✔Temperament - ✔✔How someone acts and approaches the world
✔✔Substance detection in urine - ✔✔Alcohol: 7-12hrs, Amphetamines: 48-72hrs,
Benzodiazepines: 3 days
✔✔Causes of decreased blood urea nitrogen (BUN) - ✔✔Liver failure, acromegaly,
malnutrition, impaired absorption, nephrotic syndrome, SIADH
✔✔Causes of hypercalcemia - ✔✔Vitamin D, milk, antacids, thiazides
✔✔Purpose of differential diagnosis - ✔✔To consider all possible options before making
a final diagnosis so that life-threatening conditions or medical conditions are not
overlooked. Allows appropriate treatment to be identified. Will help the clinician
establish the most accurate final diagnosis.
, ✔✔False elevation in folate test - ✔✔Hemolyzed specimens, iron-deficiency anemia
✔✔Psychiatric symptoms of hypothyroidism - ✔✔Not provided in the notes
✔✔Hemolyzed specimens - ✔✔Iron-deficiency anemia
✔✔Recommended baseline labs prior to lithium treatment - ✔✔BMP, TSH, CBC,
Calcium, Preg test
✔✔Most widely used instrument for cognitive impairment - ✔✔MMSE
✔✔Diagnostic group with low magnesium levels - ✔✔Alcoholics
✔✔Instrument measuring symptoms of schizophrenia - ✔✔PANSS
✔✔Clinical disorders causing hypokalemia - ✔✔CF, chronic alcoholism, Bartter
syndrome, malabsorption, diarrhea, vomiting, sweating, aldosteronism, draining
wounds, etc.
✔✔Types of immature defense mechanisms - ✔✔Acting out, blocking, hypochondriasis,
introjection, passive-aggressive behavior, projection, regression, schizoid fantasy,
somatization
✔✔Purpose of drawing labs in psychiatry - ✔✔Gain additional information about a
person's illness and if it creating psychotic-like symptoms
✔✔Benefit of developing a treatment plan - ✔✔Patient adherence, provides a guide to
treatment for both therapist and client, can reduce risk of fraud, waste, abuse, and the
potential to cause unintentional harm to clients. Facilitate easy and effective billing since
all services rendered are documented
✔✔SMART treatment goals - ✔✔Specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-
bound
✔✔Benefit of evidence-based practice guidelines - ✔✔To encourage the use of safe
and effective treatments likely to achieve results
✔✔AIMS measure - ✔✔Clinical exam and rating scale developed to measure dyskinetic
symptoms in patients taking antipsychotics. 12 items with 1-4 scale.
✔✔Instruments to assess symptoms of depression - ✔✔PHQ-9, HAM-D, BDI
✔✔Instruments to assess symptoms of anxiety - ✔✔GAD-7, HAM-A
