ANCC STUDY EXAM SCRIPT COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. Fever
2. Encephalopathy (ALOC)
3. Vitals unstable (myoglobinuria, autonomic instability)
4. Enzymes increase
5. Rigidity of muscles
✔✔Forensic PMHNP Knowledge set - ✔✔Court system function
Litigation procedures
Criminal justice system
Case law and health litigation
Distorted thinking patterns and impaired cognition
Safety, security, management, and risk assessment of individuals
✔✔Frontal lobe problems cause: - ✔✔Personality changes
Emotional changes
Intellectual changes
✔✔Temporal lobe problems cause: - ✔✔Aphasia
Amnesia
, ✔✔Occipital lobe problems cause: - ✔✔Visual field defects
✔✔Parietal lobe problems cause: - ✔✔Agnosia
Sensory-perceptual disturbance
✔✔Dysdiadochokinesia - ✔✔inability to perform rapid alternating movements
Lesion in cerebellum
✔✔Asteriognosis - ✔✔inability to recognize objects by sense of touch
Parietal lobe lesion
✔✔choreiform movements - ✔✔Involuntary, irregular, purposeless, dysrhythmical
movements
✔✔inquiring system - ✔✔system capable of facilitating learning and organizational
change
✔✔Is Parkinson's caused by an increase or decrease in DA? - ✔✔Decrease
✔✔An increase in what neurotransmitter leads to BP affective disorder? - ✔✔Glutamate
✔✔What drug class is Clonidine and what is it used for? - ✔✔Alpha-agonist sometimes
use for anxiety in children
✔✔What class is Tiagabine and what is it used for? - ✔✔NON-Benzo anxiolytic used
off-label as adjunct for anxiety
✔✔Thyrotoxicosis encephalopathy is related to what nutrient deficiency? - ✔✔Thiamine
(mimics schizophrenia)
✔✔Kids 6-11 develop what cognitive-spatial concepts? - ✔✔Hierarchical classification
Reversibility
Conservation
Decentration
Spatial operations
Horizontal decalage
1. Fever
2. Encephalopathy (ALOC)
3. Vitals unstable (myoglobinuria, autonomic instability)
4. Enzymes increase
5. Rigidity of muscles
✔✔Forensic PMHNP Knowledge set - ✔✔Court system function
Litigation procedures
Criminal justice system
Case law and health litigation
Distorted thinking patterns and impaired cognition
Safety, security, management, and risk assessment of individuals
✔✔Frontal lobe problems cause: - ✔✔Personality changes
Emotional changes
Intellectual changes
✔✔Temporal lobe problems cause: - ✔✔Aphasia
Amnesia
, ✔✔Occipital lobe problems cause: - ✔✔Visual field defects
✔✔Parietal lobe problems cause: - ✔✔Agnosia
Sensory-perceptual disturbance
✔✔Dysdiadochokinesia - ✔✔inability to perform rapid alternating movements
Lesion in cerebellum
✔✔Asteriognosis - ✔✔inability to recognize objects by sense of touch
Parietal lobe lesion
✔✔choreiform movements - ✔✔Involuntary, irregular, purposeless, dysrhythmical
movements
✔✔inquiring system - ✔✔system capable of facilitating learning and organizational
change
✔✔Is Parkinson's caused by an increase or decrease in DA? - ✔✔Decrease
✔✔An increase in what neurotransmitter leads to BP affective disorder? - ✔✔Glutamate
✔✔What drug class is Clonidine and what is it used for? - ✔✔Alpha-agonist sometimes
use for anxiety in children
✔✔What class is Tiagabine and what is it used for? - ✔✔NON-Benzo anxiolytic used
off-label as adjunct for anxiety
✔✔Thyrotoxicosis encephalopathy is related to what nutrient deficiency? - ✔✔Thiamine
(mimics schizophrenia)
✔✔Kids 6-11 develop what cognitive-spatial concepts? - ✔✔Hierarchical classification
Reversibility
Conservation
Decentration
Spatial operations
Horizontal decalage
