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Psychiatric NP exam Practice 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? - ANSWER-COBRA T/F a patient has a right to make changes to their chart as well as see it - ANSWER-True Summarize general...

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Psychiatric NP exam Practice 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? - ANSWER✔✔-COBRA


T/F a patient has a right to make changes to their chart as well as see it - ANSWER✔✔-True


Summarize general goals for healthy people 2020 - ANSWER✔✔-Increase the quality and years of life

while eliminating health disparities


What are the 5 conditions NPs are required to report? - 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? - 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? - ANSWER✔✔-75%


Genetic inheritance that will be present in more than one generation? - ANSWER✔✔-Autosomal

dominant (rare) like huntington's disease


What is the difference between a normal grief response and a protracted grief response? - 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? - ANSWER✔✔-almost 40%, 7%, almost 25% and almost

5% respectively.


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How would you treat someone who is psychotropic naive? - 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? - 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 - 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.


What kind of sleep declines markedly with organic brain dysfunction and is sensitive to temperature

extremes? - ANSWER✔✔-REM


Describe REM Sleep - ANSWER✔✔-Great EEG activation, muscle atonia, rapid eye movements, muscle

twitches, and breathing irregularities.


Describe Non Rem Sleep - ANSWER✔✔-minimal mental activity, inactive yet actively regulated brain in a

movable body.


Describe the pneumonic SLAP for assessing suicide - ANSWER✔✔-Social support, lethality, Access, Plan


DSM 5 criteria for Depression requires: - 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 - ANSWER✔✔-Distractability, Indiscretion, grandiosity,

flight of ideas, activity increase, sleep deficit, talkativeness.

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