ANCC PMHNP COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔4 problems of IP Theory(Harry Stack Sullivan) - ✔✔Role Dispute, Role Transitions,
Unresolved Grief, Interpersonal deficits.
✔✔Tai-Chi and dance affect which part of the brain? - ✔✔Basal Nuclei
✔✔Anosognosia - ✔✔When a Patient lacks the ability to discern his or her Illness
despite obvious symptoms. common is Schizophrenia
✔✔Heroin vs Methadone Withdrawal times? - ✔✔Heroin 4-5 days
Methadone 2 weeks.
✔✔What percentage of Americans have Anxiety D/O - ✔✔12-25 percent
✔✔What percentage of patients with Panic attack report Chest pain? - ✔✔40-60
percent
✔✔What percentage of people who stop Antidepressants relapse? - ✔✔70 percent
✔✔Fair Weather Lodge Model - ✔✔4-8 residents live together in a home and run a
small business. May have a sponsor that helps cover expenses. staff is on call as
needed.
✔✔First murmur with thrill - ✔✔Grade IV Murmur
✔✔Loudest Murmur No stethascope touching patient - ✔✔Grade VI murmur
✔✔Loud Murmur with thrill Stethoscope rim only - ✔✔Grade V Murmur
✔✔0-18 months develop Object Permanence - ✔✔Piaget -Sensorimotor
✔✔18 Months to 7 years Egocentric - ✔✔Piaget- Preoperational
✔✔7 Years to 12 years Conservation - ✔✔Piaget- Concrete- Operational
✔✔13 years to Adult Full Thought - ✔✔Piaget- Formal Operational
✔✔Motor restlessness - ✔✔Akathesia
✔✔Lack of Movement - ✔✔Akinesia
, ✔✔Muscle Spasms particularly in the neck that can cause repetitive movements and
pain - ✔✔Dystonia
✔✔Shuffling Gait, Mask like face, pill rolling - ✔✔Pseudo-Parkinson's
✔✔Involuntary Muscle Movements of mouth, Tongue, face, or jaw that may progress
into the limbs may be irreversible if left untreated. - ✔✔Tardive Dyskinesia.
✔✔Vanderbilt and Conner's - ✔✔ADHD assessment tools. Vanderbilt is free
✔✔Hamilton Depression Scale - ✔✔0-7 No depression
8-13 Mild
14-18 Moderate
19-22 Severe
more than 23 is very severe.
✔✔On
Old
Olympus
Towering
top
A
Finn
And
German
Viewed
A
Hop - ✔✔Olfactory-Smell
Optic- Visual acuity
Oculomotor-Eye Movements
Trochlear-Eye Movements-superior
Trigeminal- deep structures of head
Abducens- Specific Eye Movements
Facial-taste, eyebrows, corneal reflex. salt sugar
Acoustic- Hearing
Glossopharyngeal-Swallow, taste
Vagus- gag reflex, swallow
Accessory-shoulders
Hypoglossal- tounge
✔✔Testicular self exam - ✔✔this self exam starts in adolescence Highest risk for
disease is early 20's
✔✔Discontinue pap smear - ✔✔65-70 with 3 normal cytology tests.
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔4 problems of IP Theory(Harry Stack Sullivan) - ✔✔Role Dispute, Role Transitions,
Unresolved Grief, Interpersonal deficits.
✔✔Tai-Chi and dance affect which part of the brain? - ✔✔Basal Nuclei
✔✔Anosognosia - ✔✔When a Patient lacks the ability to discern his or her Illness
despite obvious symptoms. common is Schizophrenia
✔✔Heroin vs Methadone Withdrawal times? - ✔✔Heroin 4-5 days
Methadone 2 weeks.
✔✔What percentage of Americans have Anxiety D/O - ✔✔12-25 percent
✔✔What percentage of patients with Panic attack report Chest pain? - ✔✔40-60
percent
✔✔What percentage of people who stop Antidepressants relapse? - ✔✔70 percent
✔✔Fair Weather Lodge Model - ✔✔4-8 residents live together in a home and run a
small business. May have a sponsor that helps cover expenses. staff is on call as
needed.
✔✔First murmur with thrill - ✔✔Grade IV Murmur
✔✔Loudest Murmur No stethascope touching patient - ✔✔Grade VI murmur
✔✔Loud Murmur with thrill Stethoscope rim only - ✔✔Grade V Murmur
✔✔0-18 months develop Object Permanence - ✔✔Piaget -Sensorimotor
✔✔18 Months to 7 years Egocentric - ✔✔Piaget- Preoperational
✔✔7 Years to 12 years Conservation - ✔✔Piaget- Concrete- Operational
✔✔13 years to Adult Full Thought - ✔✔Piaget- Formal Operational
✔✔Motor restlessness - ✔✔Akathesia
✔✔Lack of Movement - ✔✔Akinesia
, ✔✔Muscle Spasms particularly in the neck that can cause repetitive movements and
pain - ✔✔Dystonia
✔✔Shuffling Gait, Mask like face, pill rolling - ✔✔Pseudo-Parkinson's
✔✔Involuntary Muscle Movements of mouth, Tongue, face, or jaw that may progress
into the limbs may be irreversible if left untreated. - ✔✔Tardive Dyskinesia.
✔✔Vanderbilt and Conner's - ✔✔ADHD assessment tools. Vanderbilt is free
✔✔Hamilton Depression Scale - ✔✔0-7 No depression
8-13 Mild
14-18 Moderate
19-22 Severe
more than 23 is very severe.
✔✔On
Old
Olympus
Towering
top
A
Finn
And
German
Viewed
A
Hop - ✔✔Olfactory-Smell
Optic- Visual acuity
Oculomotor-Eye Movements
Trochlear-Eye Movements-superior
Trigeminal- deep structures of head
Abducens- Specific Eye Movements
Facial-taste, eyebrows, corneal reflex. salt sugar
Acoustic- Hearing
Glossopharyngeal-Swallow, taste
Vagus- gag reflex, swallow
Accessory-shoulders
Hypoglossal- tounge
✔✔Testicular self exam - ✔✔this self exam starts in adolescence Highest risk for
disease is early 20's
✔✔Discontinue pap smear - ✔✔65-70 with 3 normal cytology tests.
