PSYCHIATRIC NURSE CERTIFICATION EXAM UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS
Inhalants: Intoxication affects - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Withdrawal effects Euphoria
Dizziness Blurred vision loss of inhibition muscle weakness depressed reflexes slurred speech
loss of coordination
Assess motivation and stage of/readiness for change
Prochaska DiClemente and Norcross - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Stages
1 Precontemplation personal realization and decreased defensiveness and rationalization through
social pressure dramatic experience media consequences and social norms
2 Contemplation
Shifting decisional balance making a commitment to a change attempt and resolving
ambivalence
3 Preparation
commitment plan and concrete strategies
4 Action
daily implementation of plan coping with withdrawal and desire to use behavioral coping
activities
5 Maintenance
lifestyle changes shifts in social network behavioral coping activities
GGT - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅gammaglutamyltransferase
deontology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The right act
4 ethical principles of deontology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅justice beneficence
autonomy nonmalificence
beneficence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Promoting the good of others and preventing
them from harm
, nonmalificence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Responsibility to do no harm
group process Long and McMahon - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅activities in a group how
interactions occur amoung members timing of interactions roles of members seating
arrangements tone of voice of members non verbal behaviors
catharsis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the act or process of releasing a strong emotion
recapituation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅summarizing and restating
existential - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Existence
triangling - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅another family member is brought in inorder to
stabilize the emotional process
scapegoating - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅another family member is blamed
paradoxical prescription - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅instructions are given to perform the
opposite of what is intended in order to produce change
category a - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅controlled studies in humans have demonstrated no
risk
category b - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅animal trials show no risk no evidence of risk in2nd
or 3rd trimester
category c - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅human risk unknown and can not be ruled out
QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS
Inhalants: Intoxication affects - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Withdrawal effects Euphoria
Dizziness Blurred vision loss of inhibition muscle weakness depressed reflexes slurred speech
loss of coordination
Assess motivation and stage of/readiness for change
Prochaska DiClemente and Norcross - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Stages
1 Precontemplation personal realization and decreased defensiveness and rationalization through
social pressure dramatic experience media consequences and social norms
2 Contemplation
Shifting decisional balance making a commitment to a change attempt and resolving
ambivalence
3 Preparation
commitment plan and concrete strategies
4 Action
daily implementation of plan coping with withdrawal and desire to use behavioral coping
activities
5 Maintenance
lifestyle changes shifts in social network behavioral coping activities
GGT - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅gammaglutamyltransferase
deontology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The right act
4 ethical principles of deontology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅justice beneficence
autonomy nonmalificence
beneficence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Promoting the good of others and preventing
them from harm
, nonmalificence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Responsibility to do no harm
group process Long and McMahon - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅activities in a group how
interactions occur amoung members timing of interactions roles of members seating
arrangements tone of voice of members non verbal behaviors
catharsis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the act or process of releasing a strong emotion
recapituation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅summarizing and restating
existential - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Existence
triangling - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅another family member is brought in inorder to
stabilize the emotional process
scapegoating - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅another family member is blamed
paradoxical prescription - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅instructions are given to perform the
opposite of what is intended in order to produce change
category a - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅controlled studies in humans have demonstrated no
risk
category b - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅animal trials show no risk no evidence of risk in2nd
or 3rd trimester
category c - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅human risk unknown and can not be ruled out
