CMN 548 COMPREHENSIVE TEST SCRIPT
2026 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS 100%
CORRECT.
◉ Cultural humility. Ans: A process that requires humility as individuals
continually engage in self-reflection and self-critique as lifelong learners
and reflective practitioners in an effort to address power imbalances and
to advocate for others.
◉ Cultural awareness. Ans: The ability to explore your own cultural
identity and bring your values and biases to a conscious level.
◉ Aphonia. Ans: A loss of voice that accompanies disease affecting the
larynx or its nerve supply
◉ Dysarthria. Ans: A defect in muscular control of speech apparatus
(lips, tongue, palate, pharynx) words may be slurred, nasal, but language
remains intact.
◉ Aphasia. Ans: A disorder in producing or understanding language
often caused by brain lesions usually the left hemisphere.
,◉ Oral apraxia. Ans: A disorder that makes it difficult to move the lips,
tongue, soft palate and throat for non speech purposes like whistling or
smiling.
◉ Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). Ans: Dementia screening
test
◉ Core skills of motivational interviewing. Ans: Focused, goal-directed
therapy, motivation is elicited from the client, nonconfrontational,
nonadversarial, builds on the transtheoretical model of change
◉ Autonomy. Ans: Doing for ones self
◉ Nonmaleficence. Ans: Doing no harm
◉ Confidentiality. Ans: The client's right to assume that information
given to the provider will not be disclosed
◉ Beneficence. Ans: Promoting well-being and doing good
◉ Ways to assess a patient's level of attention. Ans: Digit span, serial 7s,
spelling backward
◉ Most likely method for men who commit suicide. Ans: Firearms
, ◉ Insight in a mental status exam. Ans: Whether your patient knows that
he has an illness and has some realistic conception of its causes and
possible treatments
◉ SIGECAPS. Ans: MD,
Sleep/interest/guilt/energy/concentration/appetite/psychomotor/suicidalit
y
◉ MIDAS. Ans: Medical Hx, Medications, illness hx, PCP, Allergies,
Surgical Hx
◉ DIGFAST. Ans: Mania, Distractibility, indiscretion, grandiosity, flight
of ideas, activity, sleep, talkativeness
◉ Cranial nerve assessed during trapezius contraction. Ans: XI, Spinal
Accessory
◉ Manifestations of Bell's palsy. Ans: Loss of taste, hyperacusis,
increased or decreased tearing. VII Facial
◉ Cluster headaches. Ans: 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
2026 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS 100%
CORRECT.
◉ Cultural humility. Ans: A process that requires humility as individuals
continually engage in self-reflection and self-critique as lifelong learners
and reflective practitioners in an effort to address power imbalances and
to advocate for others.
◉ Cultural awareness. Ans: The ability to explore your own cultural
identity and bring your values and biases to a conscious level.
◉ Aphonia. Ans: A loss of voice that accompanies disease affecting the
larynx or its nerve supply
◉ Dysarthria. Ans: A defect in muscular control of speech apparatus
(lips, tongue, palate, pharynx) words may be slurred, nasal, but language
remains intact.
◉ Aphasia. Ans: A disorder in producing or understanding language
often caused by brain lesions usually the left hemisphere.
,◉ Oral apraxia. Ans: A disorder that makes it difficult to move the lips,
tongue, soft palate and throat for non speech purposes like whistling or
smiling.
◉ Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). Ans: Dementia screening
test
◉ Core skills of motivational interviewing. Ans: Focused, goal-directed
therapy, motivation is elicited from the client, nonconfrontational,
nonadversarial, builds on the transtheoretical model of change
◉ Autonomy. Ans: Doing for ones self
◉ Nonmaleficence. Ans: Doing no harm
◉ Confidentiality. Ans: The client's right to assume that information
given to the provider will not be disclosed
◉ Beneficence. Ans: Promoting well-being and doing good
◉ Ways to assess a patient's level of attention. Ans: Digit span, serial 7s,
spelling backward
◉ Most likely method for men who commit suicide. Ans: Firearms
, ◉ Insight in a mental status exam. Ans: Whether your patient knows that
he has an illness and has some realistic conception of its causes and
possible treatments
◉ SIGECAPS. Ans: MD,
Sleep/interest/guilt/energy/concentration/appetite/psychomotor/suicidalit
y
◉ MIDAS. Ans: Medical Hx, Medications, illness hx, PCP, Allergies,
Surgical Hx
◉ DIGFAST. Ans: Mania, Distractibility, indiscretion, grandiosity, flight
of ideas, activity, sleep, talkativeness
◉ Cranial nerve assessed during trapezius contraction. Ans: XI, Spinal
Accessory
◉ Manifestations of Bell's palsy. Ans: Loss of taste, hyperacusis,
increased or decreased tearing. VII Facial
◉ Cluster headaches. Ans: 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
