NUR 650 FINAL EXAM WITH ACTUAL
CORRECT QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
DETAILED ANSWERS|FREQUENTLY
TESTED QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS|NEWEST|GUARANTEED
PASS 2026/2027
According to motivational interviewing techniques, when a therapist argues that a client's behavior
needs to change, the client often respond:
a. asking the therapist for advice
b. arguing against change.
c. accepting the need for change
d. moving to the next stage of change
b. arguing against change.
Self ______ develops healing within the group.
a. Dislike
b. Empathy
c. Acceptance
d. Trust
c. Acceptance
Which of the following drugs used to treat Alzheimer's disease is not an anticholinergic?
a. Galantamine
b. Donepezil
c. Rivastigmine
d. Memantine
d. Memantine (Namenda)
A rapid cognitive screening was developed by Geldmacher
(2003). Which reflects a question asked by clinician when using
this screening?
a. Repeat after me. Cookie, honesty, daffodil.
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,b. "Tell me what you enjoy doing in your spare time"
c. "Who is the President of the United States?"
d."How many fingers am I holding up?
a. Repeat after me. Cookie, honesty, daffodil.
All of the following treatments focus on channeling spiritual
energy EXCEPT?
a. Ayurveda
b. Healing touch
c. Reiki
d. Qigong
a. Ayurveda
A couple in their middle 40s attends the ultrasound
appointment. The woman is 24 weeks pregnant and this is their
4th attempt to conceive. The radiologist says the pregnancy is no
longer viable, but the parents insist on continuing the pregnancy.
What should the nurse practitioner do next as a result of this
family's decision:
a. Admit the mother as she will become septic in 24 hours
b. Refer the family to couples therapy
c. Refer the family to perinatal palliative care
d. Refer the family to a gynecologist for a dilation and curettage
c. Refer the family to perinatal palliative care
The national center for complementary and integrative
ANCCIH 2020} has created two classifications of
complementary health intervention. Which is an energy therapy
intervention.
a. Meditation
b. Pilates
c. Therapeutic touch
d. feldenkrais
c. Therapeutic touch
The psychiatrist mental health advanced practice registered
nurse evaluates a client and gives a diagnosis of severe
Alzheimer disease. Which pharmacological agent is the best
option?
a. rivastigmine
b. Donepezil
c. Memantine ER
d. Galantamine
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,c. Memantine ER
All the following are therapeutic factors in group therapy except
a. Altruism
b. Spirituality
c. corrective recapitulation
d. Imparting information
b. Spirituality
what is the age range in which menopause will typically occur:
a. 60-57
b. 30-52
c. 40-58
d. 18-65
c. 40-58
A group member who has difficulty accepting her own feelings of hostility tends to view most other
group members as hostile. It is likely that she is:
a. engaging in countertransference
b. rationalizing her feelings
c. projecting her own hostility onto others members.
d. quite perceptive of others' true feelings
c. projecting her own hostility onto others members.
Select one technique each that is used in the following statement. It's quite acceptable to feel the way
you do.
a. interpretation
b. closing question
c. Facilitation
d. Summarizing
d. Summarizing
Patient with this form of dementia tend to have a younger
age of onset with more severe apathy disinhibition reduction in
speech output loss of insight and coarsening of social behavior
a. frontotemporal lobar degeneration
b. Alzheimer's disease
c. Parkinson disease
d. Pick's disease
d. Pick's disease if this is not a choice choose a. frontotemporal lobar degeneration
Which of the following is NOT accurate according to Yalom's maladaptive behavior patterns by an
identified group member.
a. are not usually improved when they are pointed out.
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, b. Can become "unhooked" when the members and therapist resist engaging in the usual behavior.
c. Are often recognized by the members instead the therapist
d. Are often identified by the peer groups members
a. is not usually improved when they are pointed out.
A patient with a history of schizophrenia wants to plan for a family. What medication would the PHN
order to treat this patient's symptoms while pregnant?
a. chlorpromazine
b. paroxetine
c. valproic acid
d. lithium
a. chlorpromazine or haldol
85 y/o patient with Alzheimer's disease starts to become agitated in the afternoon refuses to eat and he
is losing weight which medication would you prescribe first.
a. amitriptyline (Elavil)
b. aripiprazole (Abilify)|
c. olanzapine (Zyprexa)
d. sertraline (Zoloft)
d. sertraline (Zoloft)
When interviewing the patient, the therapists' s voice goes up at the end of the question. This technique
is known as:
A. Ascencion
B. Reflection
C. Deflection
D. Inflection
D. Inflection
Older adult in the united state are at an increased risk of
cognitive impairment due to which factor
a. noncompliance with preventative medication
b. disrupted sleep wade cycle
c. Polypharmacy
d. cytokine storm
c. Polypharmacy
Unexpressed feelings often result in physical symptoms such as chronic headaches, stomach pains,
muscle tension, and high blood pressure. The expression of pent -up feelings can be therapeutic because
it releases energy that has been tied up in withholding certain threatening feelings. This describes
a. cognitive reconstruction
b. catharsis
c. somatization
d. self-disclosure
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CORRECT QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
DETAILED ANSWERS|FREQUENTLY
TESTED QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS|NEWEST|GUARANTEED
PASS 2026/2027
According to motivational interviewing techniques, when a therapist argues that a client's behavior
needs to change, the client often respond:
a. asking the therapist for advice
b. arguing against change.
c. accepting the need for change
d. moving to the next stage of change
b. arguing against change.
Self ______ develops healing within the group.
a. Dislike
b. Empathy
c. Acceptance
d. Trust
c. Acceptance
Which of the following drugs used to treat Alzheimer's disease is not an anticholinergic?
a. Galantamine
b. Donepezil
c. Rivastigmine
d. Memantine
d. Memantine (Namenda)
A rapid cognitive screening was developed by Geldmacher
(2003). Which reflects a question asked by clinician when using
this screening?
a. Repeat after me. Cookie, honesty, daffodil.
1|Page
,b. "Tell me what you enjoy doing in your spare time"
c. "Who is the President of the United States?"
d."How many fingers am I holding up?
a. Repeat after me. Cookie, honesty, daffodil.
All of the following treatments focus on channeling spiritual
energy EXCEPT?
a. Ayurveda
b. Healing touch
c. Reiki
d. Qigong
a. Ayurveda
A couple in their middle 40s attends the ultrasound
appointment. The woman is 24 weeks pregnant and this is their
4th attempt to conceive. The radiologist says the pregnancy is no
longer viable, but the parents insist on continuing the pregnancy.
What should the nurse practitioner do next as a result of this
family's decision:
a. Admit the mother as she will become septic in 24 hours
b. Refer the family to couples therapy
c. Refer the family to perinatal palliative care
d. Refer the family to a gynecologist for a dilation and curettage
c. Refer the family to perinatal palliative care
The national center for complementary and integrative
ANCCIH 2020} has created two classifications of
complementary health intervention. Which is an energy therapy
intervention.
a. Meditation
b. Pilates
c. Therapeutic touch
d. feldenkrais
c. Therapeutic touch
The psychiatrist mental health advanced practice registered
nurse evaluates a client and gives a diagnosis of severe
Alzheimer disease. Which pharmacological agent is the best
option?
a. rivastigmine
b. Donepezil
c. Memantine ER
d. Galantamine
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,c. Memantine ER
All the following are therapeutic factors in group therapy except
a. Altruism
b. Spirituality
c. corrective recapitulation
d. Imparting information
b. Spirituality
what is the age range in which menopause will typically occur:
a. 60-57
b. 30-52
c. 40-58
d. 18-65
c. 40-58
A group member who has difficulty accepting her own feelings of hostility tends to view most other
group members as hostile. It is likely that she is:
a. engaging in countertransference
b. rationalizing her feelings
c. projecting her own hostility onto others members.
d. quite perceptive of others' true feelings
c. projecting her own hostility onto others members.
Select one technique each that is used in the following statement. It's quite acceptable to feel the way
you do.
a. interpretation
b. closing question
c. Facilitation
d. Summarizing
d. Summarizing
Patient with this form of dementia tend to have a younger
age of onset with more severe apathy disinhibition reduction in
speech output loss of insight and coarsening of social behavior
a. frontotemporal lobar degeneration
b. Alzheimer's disease
c. Parkinson disease
d. Pick's disease
d. Pick's disease if this is not a choice choose a. frontotemporal lobar degeneration
Which of the following is NOT accurate according to Yalom's maladaptive behavior patterns by an
identified group member.
a. are not usually improved when they are pointed out.
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, b. Can become "unhooked" when the members and therapist resist engaging in the usual behavior.
c. Are often recognized by the members instead the therapist
d. Are often identified by the peer groups members
a. is not usually improved when they are pointed out.
A patient with a history of schizophrenia wants to plan for a family. What medication would the PHN
order to treat this patient's symptoms while pregnant?
a. chlorpromazine
b. paroxetine
c. valproic acid
d. lithium
a. chlorpromazine or haldol
85 y/o patient with Alzheimer's disease starts to become agitated in the afternoon refuses to eat and he
is losing weight which medication would you prescribe first.
a. amitriptyline (Elavil)
b. aripiprazole (Abilify)|
c. olanzapine (Zyprexa)
d. sertraline (Zoloft)
d. sertraline (Zoloft)
When interviewing the patient, the therapists' s voice goes up at the end of the question. This technique
is known as:
A. Ascencion
B. Reflection
C. Deflection
D. Inflection
D. Inflection
Older adult in the united state are at an increased risk of
cognitive impairment due to which factor
a. noncompliance with preventative medication
b. disrupted sleep wade cycle
c. Polypharmacy
d. cytokine storm
c. Polypharmacy
Unexpressed feelings often result in physical symptoms such as chronic headaches, stomach pains,
muscle tension, and high blood pressure. The expression of pent -up feelings can be therapeutic because
it releases energy that has been tied up in withholding certain threatening feelings. This describes
a. cognitive reconstruction
b. catharsis
c. somatization
d. self-disclosure
4|Page
