WGU D344 DIAGNOSTIC PROCESSES
/PMHNP D344 OA PRACTICE TEST
2025/2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS
BANK WITH VERIFIED CORRECT
ANSWERS|| 100% GUARANTEED PASS
<RECENT VERSION>
1. Transference- ANSWER ✔Displacement of feelings for significant
people in the client's past onto the PMHNP in the present
relationship
2. Countertransference- ANSWER ✔The nurse's emotional reaction
to the client based on her or his past experiences
3. Reflection- ANSWER ✔-Redirecting the idea back to the patient
for classification of important emotional overtones, feelings, and
experiences
4. Interpretation- ANSWER ✔Putting into words what the patient is
implying or feeling
5. Characteristics of a therapeutic relationship- ANSWER ✔
-Genuiness
-Acceptance
-Nonjudgment
-Authenticity
, -Empathy
-Respect
-Professional boundaries
6. Loose Associations- ANSWER ✔disorganized thinking that jumps
from one idea to another with little or no evident relation between
the thoughts
7. Flight of ideas- ANSWER ✔rapidly changing or disjointed
thoughts
8. Word salad- ANSWER ✔Incoherent mixture of words, phrases,
and sentences
9. Neologism- ANSWER ✔-Word created by speaker
10. Thought blocking- ANSWER ✔Interruption of a thought
process before it is carried through to completion
11. Insight- ANSWER ✔-Frontal lobe function represented by
the capacity of the individual to appraise whether one's thoughts,
feelings, perceptions, and planned actions are appropriate and
realistic
12. Diagnostic overshadowing- ANSWER ✔-Automatically
attributing a client's physical symptoms to their mental illness
13. Projective tests- ANSWER ✔-tests designed to reveal inner
aspects of individuals' personalities by analysis of their responses
to a standard series of ambiguous stimuli
-Example: Rorschach test
, 14. Reliability- ANSWER ✔-The degree that a test measures
what it purports to measure, consistently
15. Validity- ANSWER ✔-Does the test measure what it
purports to measure
16. Phases of a therapeutic nurse-client relationship- ANSWER
✔-Intro: Create a trusting environment, establish professional
boundaries, establish length of interaction, providing diagnostic
evaluation, setting mutually agreed-upon treatment objectives
-Working (Identification and exploration): clarifying client
expectations and mutually set goals, implementing treatment plan,
monitoring health, undertaking preventative health care,
measuring/evaluating outcomes of care, reprioritizing plan and
objectives as indicated
-Termination: Reviewing clinet's progress towards objectives,
establishing long-term plan of care, focusing on self-management
strategies, disengaging from the relationship, referring to other
services as needed
17. Brief psychiatric rating scale- ANSWER ✔-Tool used to
measure severity of acute psychiatric symptoms in individuals with
psychosis
18. Mood Disorder Questionnaire- ANSWER ✔-Screens for
bipolar disorder
19. GAD-7- ANSWER ✔-Assess level and extent of anxiety
20. Y-BOCS- ANSWER ✔-Assessment scale for OCD
/PMHNP D344 OA PRACTICE TEST
2025/2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS
BANK WITH VERIFIED CORRECT
ANSWERS|| 100% GUARANTEED PASS
<RECENT VERSION>
1. Transference- ANSWER ✔Displacement of feelings for significant
people in the client's past onto the PMHNP in the present
relationship
2. Countertransference- ANSWER ✔The nurse's emotional reaction
to the client based on her or his past experiences
3. Reflection- ANSWER ✔-Redirecting the idea back to the patient
for classification of important emotional overtones, feelings, and
experiences
4. Interpretation- ANSWER ✔Putting into words what the patient is
implying or feeling
5. Characteristics of a therapeutic relationship- ANSWER ✔
-Genuiness
-Acceptance
-Nonjudgment
-Authenticity
, -Empathy
-Respect
-Professional boundaries
6. Loose Associations- ANSWER ✔disorganized thinking that jumps
from one idea to another with little or no evident relation between
the thoughts
7. Flight of ideas- ANSWER ✔rapidly changing or disjointed
thoughts
8. Word salad- ANSWER ✔Incoherent mixture of words, phrases,
and sentences
9. Neologism- ANSWER ✔-Word created by speaker
10. Thought blocking- ANSWER ✔Interruption of a thought
process before it is carried through to completion
11. Insight- ANSWER ✔-Frontal lobe function represented by
the capacity of the individual to appraise whether one's thoughts,
feelings, perceptions, and planned actions are appropriate and
realistic
12. Diagnostic overshadowing- ANSWER ✔-Automatically
attributing a client's physical symptoms to their mental illness
13. Projective tests- ANSWER ✔-tests designed to reveal inner
aspects of individuals' personalities by analysis of their responses
to a standard series of ambiguous stimuli
-Example: Rorschach test
, 14. Reliability- ANSWER ✔-The degree that a test measures
what it purports to measure, consistently
15. Validity- ANSWER ✔-Does the test measure what it
purports to measure
16. Phases of a therapeutic nurse-client relationship- ANSWER
✔-Intro: Create a trusting environment, establish professional
boundaries, establish length of interaction, providing diagnostic
evaluation, setting mutually agreed-upon treatment objectives
-Working (Identification and exploration): clarifying client
expectations and mutually set goals, implementing treatment plan,
monitoring health, undertaking preventative health care,
measuring/evaluating outcomes of care, reprioritizing plan and
objectives as indicated
-Termination: Reviewing clinet's progress towards objectives,
establishing long-term plan of care, focusing on self-management
strategies, disengaging from the relationship, referring to other
services as needed
17. Brief psychiatric rating scale- ANSWER ✔-Tool used to
measure severity of acute psychiatric symptoms in individuals with
psychosis
18. Mood Disorder Questionnaire- ANSWER ✔-Screens for
bipolar disorder
19. GAD-7- ANSWER ✔-Assess level and extent of anxiety
20. Y-BOCS- ANSWER ✔-Assessment scale for OCD
