CMN 548 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
◉ Core skills of motivational interviewing.
Answer: Focused, goal-directed therapy, motivation is elicited from
the client, nonconfrontational, nonadversarial, builds on the
transtheoretical model of change
◉ Autonomy.
Answer: Doing for ones self
◉ Nonmaleficence.
Answer: Doing no harm
◉ Confidentiality.
Answer: The client's right to assume that information given to the
provider will not be disclosed
◉ Beneficence.
Answer: Promoting well-being and doing good
◉ Ways to assess a patient's level of attention.
,Answer: Digit span, serial 7s, spelling backward
◉ Most likely method for men who commit suicide.
Answer: Firearms
◉ Insight in a mental status exam.
Answer: Whether your patient knows that he has an illness and has
some realistic conception of its causes and possible treatments
◉ SIGECAPS.
Answer: MD,
Sleep/interest/guilt/energy/concentration/appetite/psychomotor/
suicidality
◉ MIDAS.
Answer: Medical Hx, Medications, illness hx, PCP, Allergies, Surgical
Hx
◉ DIGFAST.
Answer: Mania, Distractibility, indiscretion, grandiosity, flight of
ideas, activity, sleep, talkativeness
◉ Cranial nerve assessed during trapezius contraction.
, Answer: XI, Spinal Accessory
◉ Manifestations of Bell's palsy.
Answer: Loss of taste, hyperacusis, increased or decreased tearing.
VII Facial
◉ Cluster headaches.
Answer: Severe unilateral headaches that occur particularly at night
and often are worse with alcohol ingestion (they are also associated
with a red eye). They commonly are "clustered", with remissions and
exacerbations occurring over weeks or months
◉ Migraine.
Answer: In classic migraine, there is a preceding aura, commonly a
visual disturbance in one or both eyes (e.g., a wavy distortion, or
scotoma, in front of one or both eyes, dizziness, nausea, and
sometimes hemisensory or motor deficits).
◉ Opioid intoxication symptoms.
Answer: Sedation, pinpoint pupils, dysarthria, slowed cognition
◉ Opioid withdrawal symptoms.
Answer: Lacrimation, rhinorrhea, yawning, piloerection, myalgias,
pupillary dilation, bowel discomfort
SOLUTIONS
◉ Core skills of motivational interviewing.
Answer: Focused, goal-directed therapy, motivation is elicited from
the client, nonconfrontational, nonadversarial, builds on the
transtheoretical model of change
◉ Autonomy.
Answer: Doing for ones self
◉ Nonmaleficence.
Answer: Doing no harm
◉ Confidentiality.
Answer: The client's right to assume that information given to the
provider will not be disclosed
◉ Beneficence.
Answer: Promoting well-being and doing good
◉ Ways to assess a patient's level of attention.
,Answer: Digit span, serial 7s, spelling backward
◉ Most likely method for men who commit suicide.
Answer: Firearms
◉ Insight in a mental status exam.
Answer: Whether your patient knows that he has an illness and has
some realistic conception of its causes and possible treatments
◉ SIGECAPS.
Answer: MD,
Sleep/interest/guilt/energy/concentration/appetite/psychomotor/
suicidality
◉ MIDAS.
Answer: Medical Hx, Medications, illness hx, PCP, Allergies, Surgical
Hx
◉ DIGFAST.
Answer: Mania, Distractibility, indiscretion, grandiosity, flight of
ideas, activity, sleep, talkativeness
◉ Cranial nerve assessed during trapezius contraction.
, Answer: XI, Spinal Accessory
◉ Manifestations of Bell's palsy.
Answer: Loss of taste, hyperacusis, increased or decreased tearing.
VII Facial
◉ Cluster headaches.
Answer: Severe unilateral headaches that occur particularly at night
and often are worse with alcohol ingestion (they are also associated
with a red eye). They commonly are "clustered", with remissions and
exacerbations occurring over weeks or months
◉ Migraine.
Answer: In classic migraine, there is a preceding aura, commonly a
visual disturbance in one or both eyes (e.g., a wavy distortion, or
scotoma, in front of one or both eyes, dizziness, nausea, and
sometimes hemisensory or motor deficits).
◉ Opioid intoxication symptoms.
Answer: Sedation, pinpoint pupils, dysarthria, slowed cognition
◉ Opioid withdrawal symptoms.
Answer: Lacrimation, rhinorrhea, yawning, piloerection, myalgias,
pupillary dilation, bowel discomfort
