Midterm Exams: NR 547 / NR547 (Latest 2025 / 2026 Updates STUDY BUNDLE PACKAGE WITH SOLUTIONS) Differential Diagnosis in Psychiatric-Mental Health Across the Lifespan Practicum | Questions & Answers | Grade A | 100% Correct (Verified Answers) - Chamberlai

Name the 6 of a differential diagnosis Remember with step 5, the PMHNP can use "other specified" in the diagnosis when they want to indicate the specific reason for a diagnosis. The PMHNP wants to rule out anemia as a cause for a patient’s fatigue and lack of motivation. What lab should she order? What is normal creat/BUN level? A patient presents with brain fog, lack of focus, insomnia & mood swing, lack of mental alertness. What lab should the PMHNP order? The patient has a B12 level of 126 picograms/mL. What symptoms may the patient experience? Name the normal vitamin D levels. Tell me about the HAM-A. less than 17 - mild shows there is an INCREASE activation of the amygdala which is an increase in the fear response. There is a decreased activation of the pre-frontal cortex which results in lessened reasoning. Explain GAD. What is the DSM criteria for GAD? Name the first line treatment for GAD. What are some side effects of SSRIs? What is another adjunct treatment or PRN medication used as a treatment for GAD? What is the GAD-7 screening tool? 5–9 - mild Name the DSM for panic disorder. 1 month of worry after 1 panic attack What are some signs/symptoms that patients may complain of when having a panic attack or if they are diagnosed with panic disorder? What is the first line treatment for panic disorder? Tell me about agoraphobia. Tell me about social phobias aka social anxiety disorder. Name some signs/symptoms of SAD. What is the first treatment for SAD? What is the treatment for performance-based anxiety, or for people with physiological symptoms such as tachycardia/tremor? What is the treatment for people with reoccurring performance anxiety? Tell me about Adjustment Disorder with anxiety. Adjustment disorder. Symptoms must begin ___ months within exposure to the stressor and last no more than ___ months. What is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)? What are obsessions? ___ are repetitive behaviors or mental acts that are done in response to obsessions or in a rigid rule-bound way that can cause severe distress. Name some. When a person that has an obsession believes that a compulsion has to be completed or their family will die. What is this called? How would you treat OCD? What childhood infection can lead someone to developing OCD? What tool can be used to assess severity of a patient’s obsessions/compulsions? Name different types of psychosis. A psychomotor syndrome that presents as a decreased reactivity to one’s environment. It usually occurs in tandem with other psychiatric/medical disorders. Most associated with schizophrenia/affective disorders, autism or infectious diseases. What is this? What is the main treatment for Catatonia? Schizophrenia is marked by a "pre-phase" in which the patient develops symptoms before the first psychotic episode. What is this phase called? Tell me about schizophrenia. ___ is associated with symptoms of schizophrenia and symptoms of a mood disorder. It can be misdiagnosed as MDD. What is schizophreniform disorder? ___ is an acute psychosis often precipitated by stress that can last more than 1 day but less than 1 month. 1 or more delusions for at least 1 month duration that cannot be attributed to any other psychiatric disorder. What disorder is this? Patients that have ___ & ___ delusions with delusional disorder usually have a poor prognosis vs others that have other delusions. This tool contains 24 categories that score 1–7. The clinician uses this tool to rate the patient’s symptoms over days to grade psychosis. What is it? The ___ tool focuses on measuring clinical symptoms associated with the disorder. This one is often used within research to identify the difference between positive and negative symptoms.