PMHNP EXAM 2024- 2025 WITH COMPLETE
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What is a type i research error? Correct Answer there is a
difference but you say there isn't a difference.
What is a type ii research error? Correct Answer there is no
difference but you say there is a difference.
What is pseudo-dementia? Correct Answer cognitive impairment
secondary to depression that clears when treated in the elderly.
Dementia won't improve.
What does messenger rna code for? Correct Answer amino acids
What is epigenetics? Correct Answer factors that affect genes -
environmental, smoking, stress, etc...
What part of the brain is involved with ocd? Correct Answer basal
ganglia
Occipito-frontal
What happens to the brain during adolescence? Correct Answer
dendritic pruning
Emotions are controlled by amygdala
By adulthood, pfc involved as well
When do males typically present with schizophrenia? Correct
Answer 10-25 yo
When do females typically present with schizophrenia? Correct
Answer 25-35 yo
,What does erythromycin to trileptal? Correct Answer you will need
to decreases the level because trileptal(inducer) and erythromycin
is a inhibitor
Ace inhibitors are the drug of choice for what? Correct Answer
heart failure
Htn
What are some psychiatric side effects seen with some asthma
drugs Correct Answer leukotriene receptor agonists - singulair,
accolade, zyflo = agitation, aggression, anxiety, hallucinations,
depression, insomnia, si, tremor
Is it normal for a 1 month old to have a palmar grasp? Correct
Answer yes.
What is a drug 1/2 life? Correct Answer the time it takes for 50%
of a drug to be eliminated from the body.
What 3 atypicals can be used with teens? Correct Answer
zyprexa, abilify, seroquel - low doses
What is a risk of using tramadol? Correct Answer serotonin
syndrome as it is very serotonergic.
What is the allele seen in asians that increase the risk of sjs?
Correct Answer hlab-1502
When might you see toxic epidermal necrolysis? Correct Answer
with worsening of sjs
How many generations do you include for a genogram? Correct
Answer 1st degree - mother, father, siblings
2nd degree - grandparents & cousins
,3rd degree -
What should you watch for with tegretol? Correct Answer
agranulocytosis and hyponatremia
What are the 3 ck muscle enzyme tests? Correct Answer ckbb,
ckmm, ckmb
Which one of the 3 muscle enzymes are related to cardiac muscle
damage? Correct Answer ckmb
What is the risk of a seriously elevated ckmb? Correct Answer
polymyositis
Rhabdo
What is a normal ckmb? Correct Answer 0.3 mcg/l
What psychoactives does detrol interact with? Correct Answer
topamax
Kcl
Zonegran
What cn are you assessing when you have the patient shrug their
shoulders? Correct Answer cn xi - spinal accessory
What do you see in labs with hiv & dementia? Correct Answer cd4
<200
Viral load is high
<20% get it with antiretroviral treatment
What is the scoring with the beck depression inventory? Correct
Answer self-report - 0-63
0-13 - minimal
14-19 - mild
20-28 - moderate
, 29-63 - severe
What is sensitivity? Correct Answer helps rule-out disease = true
positive = snout
What is dissemination? Correct Answer getting the research
information out to those who need to know it!
Publication - highest level
Presenting at national conference
Presenting at local conference
Journal club where one person reviews an article
What does a 17 on mmse mean? Correct Answer moderate
cognitive impairment
What is tegretol in the cyp450 system? Correct Answer inducer --
>will lower dose of lamictal and bcp's
What do bcp's do to lamictal? Correct Answer inducer - will lower
dose of lamictal
What is specificity? Correct Answer helps rule-in disease = true
negative = spin
What does a sed rate measure? Correct Answer inflammation
(esr - erythrocyte sedimentation rate) = distance in mm rbc's have
descended in 1 hour.
What is a normal sed rate or esr? Correct Answer 0-22 males
0-29 females
What is a retic count? Correct Answer measures % of
reticulocytes in blood (immature rbc's) indicates whether enough
rbc's are being produced by bone marrow.
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