Psychiatric NP Exam Questions and
Answers
Under HIPPA, what is the insurance policy that allows you to hold the
company's insurance for 18 months after leaving job? -
correct answer ✅COBRA
T/F a patient has a right to make changes to their chart as well as see it -
correct answer ✅True
Summarize general goals for healthy people 2020 -
correct answer ✅Increase the quality and years of life while eliminating
health disparities
What are the 5 conditions NPs are required to report? -
correct answer ✅STDs like Gonorhea, Chlamydia, and Syphillis, as well as TB
and HIV (as well as animal bites)
Nurse practitioners are legally required to report what kind of abuse, and
what kind is allowed to be left alone? -
correct answer ✅Child and elder abuse, but domestic violence is not
required to be legally reported
What percentage of mental illnesses appear by the age of 18? -
correct answer ✅75%
Genetic inheritance that will be present in more than one generation? -
correct answer ✅Autosomal dominant (rare) like huntington's disease
,Psychiatric NP Exam Questions and
Answers
What is the difference between a normal grief response and a protracted
grief response? -
correct answer ✅protractive grief response is a risk for pathology
characterized by a loss of self esteem which does not happen with normal
grief
What is the rate of schizophrenia admissions to the hospital when both
parents are infected by the illness? one parent? both bipolar? one bipolar? -
correct answer ✅almost 40%, 7%, almost 25% and almost 5% respectively.
How would you treat someone who is psychotropic naive? -
correct answer ✅use lower doses due to no tolerance and no down
regulation.
When asking a patient about medical history during a psychiatric interview,
what diseases should we pay particular attention to? Why? -
correct answer ✅Autoimmune conditions (possible use of steroids),
metabolic syndrome like heart disease, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes. These
can be made worse in the presence of psychiatric illness or vice versa.
Describe normal patterns of sleep -
correct answer ✅Begin in Non-Rem (Stage 1), move into deeper non-rem or
slow wave sleep (Stages 2-4), 1st stage of Rem sleep 80-100 minutes later
and repeats with each REM stage lasting longer.
, Psychiatric NP Exam Questions and
Answers
What kind of sleep declines markedly with organic brain dysfunction and is
sensitive to temperature extremes? -
correct answer ✅REM
Describe REM Sleep -
correct answer ✅Great EEG activation, muscle atonia, rapid eye movements,
muscle twitches, and breathing irregularities.
Describe Non Rem Sleep -
correct answer ✅minimal mental activity, inactive yet actively regulated
brain in a movable body.
Describe the pneumonic SLAP for assessing suicide -
correct answer ✅Social support, lethality, Access, Plan
DSM 5 criteria for Depression requires: -
correct answer ✅at least 5 out of 8 symptoms in the last 2 weeks- 1 being
diminished interests/depressed mood, Sleep problems, guilt
(worthlessness/hopelessness), energy deficit, concentration problems,
appetite problems, psychomotor agitation or retardation, suicidality.
DIGFAST Pneumonic for assessing Bipolar disorder -
correct answer ✅Distractability, Indiscretion, grandiosity, flight of ideas,
activity increase, sleep deficit, talkativeness.
Answers
Under HIPPA, what is the insurance policy that allows you to hold the
company's insurance for 18 months after leaving job? -
correct answer ✅COBRA
T/F a patient has a right to make changes to their chart as well as see it -
correct answer ✅True
Summarize general goals for healthy people 2020 -
correct answer ✅Increase the quality and years of life while eliminating
health disparities
What are the 5 conditions NPs are required to report? -
correct answer ✅STDs like Gonorhea, Chlamydia, and Syphillis, as well as TB
and HIV (as well as animal bites)
Nurse practitioners are legally required to report what kind of abuse, and
what kind is allowed to be left alone? -
correct answer ✅Child and elder abuse, but domestic violence is not
required to be legally reported
What percentage of mental illnesses appear by the age of 18? -
correct answer ✅75%
Genetic inheritance that will be present in more than one generation? -
correct answer ✅Autosomal dominant (rare) like huntington's disease
,Psychiatric NP Exam Questions and
Answers
What is the difference between a normal grief response and a protracted
grief response? -
correct answer ✅protractive grief response is a risk for pathology
characterized by a loss of self esteem which does not happen with normal
grief
What is the rate of schizophrenia admissions to the hospital when both
parents are infected by the illness? one parent? both bipolar? one bipolar? -
correct answer ✅almost 40%, 7%, almost 25% and almost 5% respectively.
How would you treat someone who is psychotropic naive? -
correct answer ✅use lower doses due to no tolerance and no down
regulation.
When asking a patient about medical history during a psychiatric interview,
what diseases should we pay particular attention to? Why? -
correct answer ✅Autoimmune conditions (possible use of steroids),
metabolic syndrome like heart disease, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes. These
can be made worse in the presence of psychiatric illness or vice versa.
Describe normal patterns of sleep -
correct answer ✅Begin in Non-Rem (Stage 1), move into deeper non-rem or
slow wave sleep (Stages 2-4), 1st stage of Rem sleep 80-100 minutes later
and repeats with each REM stage lasting longer.
, Psychiatric NP Exam Questions and
Answers
What kind of sleep declines markedly with organic brain dysfunction and is
sensitive to temperature extremes? -
correct answer ✅REM
Describe REM Sleep -
correct answer ✅Great EEG activation, muscle atonia, rapid eye movements,
muscle twitches, and breathing irregularities.
Describe Non Rem Sleep -
correct answer ✅minimal mental activity, inactive yet actively regulated
brain in a movable body.
Describe the pneumonic SLAP for assessing suicide -
correct answer ✅Social support, lethality, Access, Plan
DSM 5 criteria for Depression requires: -
correct answer ✅at least 5 out of 8 symptoms in the last 2 weeks- 1 being
diminished interests/depressed mood, Sleep problems, guilt
(worthlessness/hopelessness), energy deficit, concentration problems,
appetite problems, psychomotor agitation or retardation, suicidality.
DIGFAST Pneumonic for assessing Bipolar disorder -
correct answer ✅Distractability, Indiscretion, grandiosity, flight of ideas,
activity increase, sleep deficit, talkativeness.
