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NURS 546 MIDTERM EXAM/ NURS 546 PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY FOR THE PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH NURSE PRACTITIONER ACTUAL MIDTERM EXAM REAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS) LATEST UPDATED VERSION |RATED A+ GUARANTEED PASS.
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NURS 546 MIDTERM EXAM/ NURS 546 PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY FOR THE PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH NURSE PRACTITIONER ACTUAL MIDTERM EXAM REAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS) LATEST UPDATED VERSION |RATED A+ GUARANTEED PASS. (BRAND NEW!!) MIDTERM EXAM
NURS 546 MIDTERM EXAM/ NURS 546 PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
FOR THE PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH NURSE PRACTITIONER
ACTUAL MIDTERM EXAM 2024-2025 REAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS)
LATEST UPDATED VERSION |RATED A+ GUARANTEED PASS.
(BRAND NEW!!) MIDTERM EXAM
What is the priority data used to determine a treatment plan for mental
health disorders?
Answer-Patient symptoms
Changes or losses in grey matter can be associated with psychiatric
diagnoses such as?
Answer- Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and major depressive
disorder.
Many psychotropic medications can cause weight gain. True of False.
Answer- True, caution is taken when prescribing to obese patients.
Which lifespan group respond differently to drugs than adults, have
heightened drug sensitivity, show greater individual variation, and have
increased risk for adverse drug reactions? Dosage selection can be
challenging because their brains and bodies are still developing.
,Answer- Pediatric patients
Which lifespan group have several psychotropic drugs that are not safe
to use, certain drugs resulting in birth defects and certain drugs
presenting in breastmilk, affecting the breastfed child, or affecting milk
production?
Answer- Pregnancy/breastfeeding patients
The physiologic changes associated with aging impact the drug
processes of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of
medications, so lower than normal dosages may be needed. The most
recent Beers Criteria should be reviewed to avoid prescribing
potentially inappropriate medications to this lifespan group.
Answer- Older adult patients
Brain tissue composed of gray matter includes?
Answer- The cerebellum, cerebrum, brain stem, and butterfly-shaped
portion of the central spinal cord.
The gray matter of the brain focuses on?
,Answer- Psychiatry and neurology and is associated with learning.
Brain tissue composed of white matter includes?
Answer- Nerve fibers that connect neurons from different regions into
functional circuits.
Why is white matter considered the transit system?
Answer- Necessary for electrical impulse transmission. If there are
breaks in the system, it can affect neural communication, affecting
behavior. Damage to the myelin can impair transmission which can
impact not only sensory and motor function, but also cognition.
White brain matter is associated with which disease processes?
Answer- Autism and vascular dementia.
Frontal Lobe
Answer- Associated with movement, intelligence, abstract thinking. the
ability to organize, personality, behavior, and emotional control.
Traumatic brain injuries can result in personality changes, difficulty
controlling emotions, and other cognitive functions.
, Parietal Lobe
Middle part of the brain
Responsible for proprioception.
Helps a person to identify spatial relationships, interpret pain and touch
in the body, and identify and give meaning to objects.
Damage to the anterior portion of the parietal lobe may cause
asterogenesis, the loss of ability to recognize objects via the sense of
touch.
May be experienced post cerebral vascular accidents.
Temporal Lobe
Located on the sides of the brain
Involved in short-term memory, speech, auditory signals, and smell
recognition.
Identifies "what" things are - object identification.
Contains the limbic system, amygdala, and hippocampus.
A dominant temporal lobe lesion can present as Wernicke's aphasia.
Temporal Lobe Disorders
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