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Under HIPPA, what is the insurance policy that allows you to hold
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the company's insurance for 18 months after leaving job? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔COBRA |\ |\




T/F a patient has a right to make changes to their chart as well
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as see it - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔True
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Summarize general goals for healthy people 2020 - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Increase the quality and years of life while
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eliminating health disparities |\ |\




What are the 5 conditions NPs are required to report? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔STDs like Gonorhea, Chlamydia, and Syphillis, as
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well as TB and HIV (as well as animal bites)
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Nurse practitioners are legally required to report what kind of
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abuse, and what kind is allowed to be left alone? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Child and elder abuse, but domestic violence is not
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required to be legally reported |\ |\ |\ |\




What percentage of mental illnesses appear by the age of 18? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔75% |\ |\

, Genetic inheritance that will be present in more than one
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generation? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Autosomal dominant (rare) |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


like huntington's disease
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What is the difference between a normal grief response and a
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protracted grief response? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔protractive |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


grief response is a risk for pathology characterized by a loss of
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self esteem which does not happen with normal grief
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What is the rate of schizophrenia admissions to the hospital when
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both parents are infected by the illness? one parent? both
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bipolar? one bipolar? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔almost 40%, 7%,
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almost 25% and almost 5% respectively.
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How would you treat someone who is psychotropic naive? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔use lower doses due to no tolerance and|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


no down regulation.
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When asking a patient about medical history during a psychiatric
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interview, what diseases should we pay particular attention to?
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Why? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Autoimmune conditions (possible
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use of steroids), metabolic syndrome like heart disease,
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hyperlipidemia, and diabetes. These can be made worse in the |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


presence of psychiatric illness or vice versa. |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




Describe normal patterns of sleep - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Begin
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in Non-Rem (Stage 1), move into deeper non-rem or slow wave
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sleep (Stages 2-4), 1st stage of Rem sleep 80-100 minutes later
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and repeats with each REM stage lasting longer.
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