PMHNP Exam Reported Questions Final
Exam Latest Version 2024/2025
Can an advanced directive ever be revoked? - ANS✔✔--Yes, at any time.
Can asthma medications cause depression? - ANS✔✔--Yes.
Can you have Medicare and Medicaid? - ANS✔✔--Yes, impoverished elderly but
Medicaid is always payor of last resort.
Can you take Buspar during pregnancy? - ANS✔✔--Category B - ok if really needed.
Can you take Klonopin during pregnancy? - ANS✔✔--Category C - avoid if possible;
does excrete into breast-milk and infant could get withdrawal symptoms.
*SIGECAPS* of Depression - ANS✔✔--Sleep
Interest
Guilt
Energy
Concentration
Appetite
psychomotor retardation
Suicide
^ prolactin - ANS✔✔--stop prolactin
3 year old masturbates, plays with self, says naught things - ANS✔✔--normal for
Piaget
5 year old tells u his brother sodomized him - ANS✔✔--Tell mom don't leave him
alone with patient and call CPS implement crisis
A man states his wife was so good if he could only be like her. what is this - ANS✔✔-
-Intellectualization
or deflecting
A pt states that she has been raped. What do you do - ANS✔✔--ensure safety
ACE inhibitors - ANS✔✔--HTN
ACE Inhibitors are the drug of choice for what? - ANS✔✔--Heart Failure
HTN
,Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) - ANS✔✔--can be 2-4 weeks
a disorder resulting from exposure to a major stressor, with symptoms of anxiety,
dissociation, recurring nightmares, sleep disturbances, problems in concentration, and
moments in which people seem to "relive" the event in dreams and flashbacks for as
long as 1 month following the event
ADPIE - Nursing Process - ANS✔✔--Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Adult panic disorder - ANS✔✔--Buspar
Aggressive patient give - ANS✔✔--IM geodon
agoraphobia - ANS✔✔--fear of open spaces
Agoraphobia treatment - ANS✔✔--*BZDs* - short term symptom relief
*SSRIs* - long-term maintenance
fluoxetine (Prozac)
paroxetine (Paxil)
sertraline (Zoloft)
*SNRIs* - long-term maintenance
venlafaxine (Effexor)
*TCAs* - long-term maintenance
imipramine
Alprostadil (PGE1) - ANS✔✔--• Ductal-dependent Congenital Heart Disease (all
forms)
• 0.05-0.1 µg/kg/min IV/IO infusion initially, then 0.01-0.05 µg/kg/min IV/IO
Amgdyla - ANS✔✔--Fear, Anxiety, and Aggression
Amygdala - ANS✔✔--A limbic system structure involved in memory and emotion,
anxiety, particularly fear and aggression.
Anorexia - ANS✔✔--Set up family therapy
Anorexia admission Criteria for hospitalization includes: - ANS✔✔--weight loss over
30% over 6 months, severe hypothermia (temperature lower than 36°C or 96.8°F), heart
, rate less than 40 beats per minute, systolic blood pressure less than 70 mm Hg, and
hypokalemia (less than 3 mEq/L).
anorexia nervosa - ANS✔✔--BMI less than 18.5
an eating disorder in which an irrational fear of weight gain leads people to starve
themselves
ANOVA (analysis of variance) - ANS✔✔--3 OR MORE
an inferential statistical test for comparing the means of three or more groups
antidepressant takes - ANS✔✔--5 weeks
Apoptosis - ANS✔✔--cell death in aging/elderly
Appreciative Inquiry - ANS✔✔--an organizational change philosophy and process
building organizations around what works, rather than focusing on and trying to fix what
doesn't work
Appreciative Inquiry - ANS✔✔--an organizational change strategy that directs the
group's attention away from its own problems and focuses participants on the group's
potential and positive elements
Appreciative Inquiry - ANS✔✔--Discovery (Best of what is )
Dream (Wishes or dreams of Org)
Design (Decide what you want to change)
Destiny (Make it happen, Implenting Change)
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) - ANS✔✔--Identify the problem
Analyze the problem
Generate Solutions
Implement Best Solutions
Discovery (Best of what is )
Dream (Wishes or dreams of Org)
Design (Decide what you want to change)
Destiny (Make it happen, Implenting Change)
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) - ANS✔✔--community-based programs that
provide many of the services that are necessary for successful community living;
includes case management, problem-solving, social skills training, support, teaching on
a 24/7 basis
Assertive Question (2) - ANS✔✔--Use "I want", "I need" or "I feel" to convey basic
assertions and get your point across firmly. For example, "I feel strongly that we need to
bring in a third party to mediate this disagreement."
Exam Latest Version 2024/2025
Can an advanced directive ever be revoked? - ANS✔✔--Yes, at any time.
Can asthma medications cause depression? - ANS✔✔--Yes.
Can you have Medicare and Medicaid? - ANS✔✔--Yes, impoverished elderly but
Medicaid is always payor of last resort.
Can you take Buspar during pregnancy? - ANS✔✔--Category B - ok if really needed.
Can you take Klonopin during pregnancy? - ANS✔✔--Category C - avoid if possible;
does excrete into breast-milk and infant could get withdrawal symptoms.
*SIGECAPS* of Depression - ANS✔✔--Sleep
Interest
Guilt
Energy
Concentration
Appetite
psychomotor retardation
Suicide
^ prolactin - ANS✔✔--stop prolactin
3 year old masturbates, plays with self, says naught things - ANS✔✔--normal for
Piaget
5 year old tells u his brother sodomized him - ANS✔✔--Tell mom don't leave him
alone with patient and call CPS implement crisis
A man states his wife was so good if he could only be like her. what is this - ANS✔✔-
-Intellectualization
or deflecting
A pt states that she has been raped. What do you do - ANS✔✔--ensure safety
ACE inhibitors - ANS✔✔--HTN
ACE Inhibitors are the drug of choice for what? - ANS✔✔--Heart Failure
HTN
,Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) - ANS✔✔--can be 2-4 weeks
a disorder resulting from exposure to a major stressor, with symptoms of anxiety,
dissociation, recurring nightmares, sleep disturbances, problems in concentration, and
moments in which people seem to "relive" the event in dreams and flashbacks for as
long as 1 month following the event
ADPIE - Nursing Process - ANS✔✔--Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Adult panic disorder - ANS✔✔--Buspar
Aggressive patient give - ANS✔✔--IM geodon
agoraphobia - ANS✔✔--fear of open spaces
Agoraphobia treatment - ANS✔✔--*BZDs* - short term symptom relief
*SSRIs* - long-term maintenance
fluoxetine (Prozac)
paroxetine (Paxil)
sertraline (Zoloft)
*SNRIs* - long-term maintenance
venlafaxine (Effexor)
*TCAs* - long-term maintenance
imipramine
Alprostadil (PGE1) - ANS✔✔--• Ductal-dependent Congenital Heart Disease (all
forms)
• 0.05-0.1 µg/kg/min IV/IO infusion initially, then 0.01-0.05 µg/kg/min IV/IO
Amgdyla - ANS✔✔--Fear, Anxiety, and Aggression
Amygdala - ANS✔✔--A limbic system structure involved in memory and emotion,
anxiety, particularly fear and aggression.
Anorexia - ANS✔✔--Set up family therapy
Anorexia admission Criteria for hospitalization includes: - ANS✔✔--weight loss over
30% over 6 months, severe hypothermia (temperature lower than 36°C or 96.8°F), heart
, rate less than 40 beats per minute, systolic blood pressure less than 70 mm Hg, and
hypokalemia (less than 3 mEq/L).
anorexia nervosa - ANS✔✔--BMI less than 18.5
an eating disorder in which an irrational fear of weight gain leads people to starve
themselves
ANOVA (analysis of variance) - ANS✔✔--3 OR MORE
an inferential statistical test for comparing the means of three or more groups
antidepressant takes - ANS✔✔--5 weeks
Apoptosis - ANS✔✔--cell death in aging/elderly
Appreciative Inquiry - ANS✔✔--an organizational change philosophy and process
building organizations around what works, rather than focusing on and trying to fix what
doesn't work
Appreciative Inquiry - ANS✔✔--an organizational change strategy that directs the
group's attention away from its own problems and focuses participants on the group's
potential and positive elements
Appreciative Inquiry - ANS✔✔--Discovery (Best of what is )
Dream (Wishes or dreams of Org)
Design (Decide what you want to change)
Destiny (Make it happen, Implenting Change)
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) - ANS✔✔--Identify the problem
Analyze the problem
Generate Solutions
Implement Best Solutions
Discovery (Best of what is )
Dream (Wishes or dreams of Org)
Design (Decide what you want to change)
Destiny (Make it happen, Implenting Change)
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) - ANS✔✔--community-based programs that
provide many of the services that are necessary for successful community living;
includes case management, problem-solving, social skills training, support, teaching on
a 24/7 basis
Assertive Question (2) - ANS✔✔--Use "I want", "I need" or "I feel" to convey basic
assertions and get your point across firmly. For example, "I feel strongly that we need to
bring in a third party to mediate this disagreement."
