NR 607 Psychopharmacology 2025/2026
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Which of the following antipsychotics pose the least cardiometabolic risk? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Ziprasidone and Ariprazole are two examples of antipsychotics
associated with lower cardiometabolic risk.
A 16-year-old boy with a history of substance use disorder reports fatigue, apathy,
and anhedonia almost every day and his mother reports increasing irritability and
raging behavior. The boy says he smokes marijuana daily just to feel good and is
unwilling to give it up. The mother wants some sort of medication to help him feel
better so that he stops smoking marijuana. The PMHNP agrees to prescribe
fluoxetine 20 mg daily. What is the most common side effect associated with this
medication? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Nausea
Keenan is an 72-year-old male admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of
delirium. Medications with anticholinergic side effects are known to cause
delirium. Which of the following medications are most suspect in contributing to
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, delirium? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Diphenhydramine and similar medications are
contraindicated in persons over 65 given their elevated anticholinergic activity.
A patient who had previously reported feeling much better on her antidepressant
suddenly says the "drug seems to have stopped working. This is known as: - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Tachyphylaxis
One of the most common electrolyte abnormalities associated with the use of
psychotropic medication is: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Hyponatremia
A patient who has been taking paroxetine for 3 years wants to come off due to
sexual side effects. He had gradually tried to wean the dose on his own but noticed
a feelings of dizziness, fatigue, headaches, anxiety, and electric-like shocks in his
head. These findings are most consistent with SSRI discontinuation. What would
be a reasonable action for the PMHNP to take? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Prescribe the
patient fluoxetine for 1 week
The PMHNP knows that the study of how the body absorbs, distributes,
metabolizes, and excretes a medication is known as: - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Pharmacokinetics
The PMHNP in the ED is evaluating a 68-year-old woman who was recently
diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment and cannot remember the name of the
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Exam Questions and Answers | 100%
Solved
Which of the following antipsychotics pose the least cardiometabolic risk? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Ziprasidone and Ariprazole are two examples of antipsychotics
associated with lower cardiometabolic risk.
A 16-year-old boy with a history of substance use disorder reports fatigue, apathy,
and anhedonia almost every day and his mother reports increasing irritability and
raging behavior. The boy says he smokes marijuana daily just to feel good and is
unwilling to give it up. The mother wants some sort of medication to help him feel
better so that he stops smoking marijuana. The PMHNP agrees to prescribe
fluoxetine 20 mg daily. What is the most common side effect associated with this
medication? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Nausea
Keenan is an 72-year-old male admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of
delirium. Medications with anticholinergic side effects are known to cause
delirium. Which of the following medications are most suspect in contributing to
1
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PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, delirium? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Diphenhydramine and similar medications are
contraindicated in persons over 65 given their elevated anticholinergic activity.
A patient who had previously reported feeling much better on her antidepressant
suddenly says the "drug seems to have stopped working. This is known as: - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Tachyphylaxis
One of the most common electrolyte abnormalities associated with the use of
psychotropic medication is: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Hyponatremia
A patient who has been taking paroxetine for 3 years wants to come off due to
sexual side effects. He had gradually tried to wean the dose on his own but noticed
a feelings of dizziness, fatigue, headaches, anxiety, and electric-like shocks in his
head. These findings are most consistent with SSRI discontinuation. What would
be a reasonable action for the PMHNP to take? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Prescribe the
patient fluoxetine for 1 week
The PMHNP knows that the study of how the body absorbs, distributes,
metabolizes, and excretes a medication is known as: - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Pharmacokinetics
The PMHNP in the ED is evaluating a 68-year-old woman who was recently
diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment and cannot remember the name of the
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