CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST
PREPARATION TEST 2026 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
● Two child/adolescent psychiatric and mental health clinical nurse
specialists are conducting a continuing education class for nurses,
psychiatric technicians, and aides who have varying levels of experience
and education. The clinical nurse specialists begin the class by
introducing themselves and relating their backgrounds and experience.
The class is then asked to do the same and tell why they are there. This
method reflects which principle of adult learning theory?
Assessment of group dynamics
Assessment of knowledge and learning needs of participants
Establishment of group cohesiveness and rapport with participants
Establishment of the clinical nurse specialists' role as experts. Answer:
Assessment of knowledge and learning needs of participants
● After climbing on the trees that surround a six-year-old female child's
home, the child reports that the "angry trees" made her fall. This
animistic thinking is:
,A coping mechanism to allay the child's guilt feelings.
An abnormal thought process for a child of this age.
Characteristic of preoperational thought.
Indicative of childhood schizophrenia.. Answer: Characteristic of
preoperational thought.
● For the past 18 months, an eight-year-old child has exhibited
involuntary, purposeless, rapid recurrent movements of the arms and
face as well as spontaneous unintelligible vocalizations. When receiving
verbal cues, the child can decrease and sometimes extinguish the erratic
movements for several minutes. The diagnosis is:
Atypical tic disorder.
Chronic motor tic disorder.
Stereotypic movement disorder.
Tourette disorder.. Answer: Tourette disorder.
, ● An eight-year-old female child is referred to the child/adolescent
psychiatric and mental health clinical nurse specialist for verbalizing
fears that her immigrant grandmother will die. The widowed
grandmother wears heavy black clothes, prays throughout the day, and
secludes herself from everyone except the child. Although the
grandmother is physically healthly, she discusses her impending death
with the child. The clinical nurse specialist recognizes that:
Cultural factors may negate the significance of seemingly obvious
symptoms.
Religious fixations are common in delusional systems.
The grandmother and the child communicate only in the grandmother's
native language.
The grandmother is exhibiting classic signs of endogenous depression..
Answer: Cultural factors may negate the significance of seemingly
obvious symptoms.
● Which of Yalom's curative factors in group therapy applies to female
adolescents who have sustained incest?
Altruism.
PREPARATION TEST 2026 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
● Two child/adolescent psychiatric and mental health clinical nurse
specialists are conducting a continuing education class for nurses,
psychiatric technicians, and aides who have varying levels of experience
and education. The clinical nurse specialists begin the class by
introducing themselves and relating their backgrounds and experience.
The class is then asked to do the same and tell why they are there. This
method reflects which principle of adult learning theory?
Assessment of group dynamics
Assessment of knowledge and learning needs of participants
Establishment of group cohesiveness and rapport with participants
Establishment of the clinical nurse specialists' role as experts. Answer:
Assessment of knowledge and learning needs of participants
● After climbing on the trees that surround a six-year-old female child's
home, the child reports that the "angry trees" made her fall. This
animistic thinking is:
,A coping mechanism to allay the child's guilt feelings.
An abnormal thought process for a child of this age.
Characteristic of preoperational thought.
Indicative of childhood schizophrenia.. Answer: Characteristic of
preoperational thought.
● For the past 18 months, an eight-year-old child has exhibited
involuntary, purposeless, rapid recurrent movements of the arms and
face as well as spontaneous unintelligible vocalizations. When receiving
verbal cues, the child can decrease and sometimes extinguish the erratic
movements for several minutes. The diagnosis is:
Atypical tic disorder.
Chronic motor tic disorder.
Stereotypic movement disorder.
Tourette disorder.. Answer: Tourette disorder.
, ● An eight-year-old female child is referred to the child/adolescent
psychiatric and mental health clinical nurse specialist for verbalizing
fears that her immigrant grandmother will die. The widowed
grandmother wears heavy black clothes, prays throughout the day, and
secludes herself from everyone except the child. Although the
grandmother is physically healthly, she discusses her impending death
with the child. The clinical nurse specialist recognizes that:
Cultural factors may negate the significance of seemingly obvious
symptoms.
Religious fixations are common in delusional systems.
The grandmother and the child communicate only in the grandmother's
native language.
The grandmother is exhibiting classic signs of endogenous depression..
Answer: Cultural factors may negate the significance of seemingly
obvious symptoms.
● Which of Yalom's curative factors in group therapy applies to female
adolescents who have sustained incest?
Altruism.
