Question: 1
Concerns when treating geriatric patients with psychotherapeutic drugs include all of the
following EXCEPT:
A. Elderly persons may be more susceptible to adverse effects of psychotherapeutic
drugs.
B. Elderly persons may metabolize psychotherapeutic drugs more slowly.
C. Elderly persons may metabolize psychotherapeutic drugs more rapidly.
D. Elderly persons may excrete psychotherapeutic drugs more slowly.
Question 2
The treatment of others equitably and distribution of benefits/burdens fairly is known as which
ofthe following?
A. Fidelity
B. Justice
C. Beneficence
D. Non-maleficence
Question 3
Persons who subordinate their own needs to those of others, get other to assume responsibility
formajor areas of the lives, lack self-confidence, and may experience intense discomfort when
alone for more than a brief period of time are demonstrating characteristics consistent with
which of the following personality disorders?
A. Avoidant personality disorder
B. Passive personality disorder
C. Dependent personality disorder
D. Antisocial personality disorder
Question 4
According to Sullivan, which of the following are consistent with a mentor/mentee relationship?
A. Mentors are assigned
B. Mentor relationships are shorter term
C. Goals for the mentoring relationship are set mutually.
D. A and B only
Question 5
A form of child abuse in which a parent or caretaker repeatedly fabricates or actually inflicts
injury or illness in a child for whom medical intervention is then sought, often in an
,emergency
, setting, is known as which of the following?
A. Korsakoff's syndrome
B. Snyder's syndrome
C. Munchausen syndrome
D. Munchausen syndrome by proxy
Question 6
The need for nurse practitioners to practice to the full extent of their education and training is
necessary for which of the following reasons? Select all that apply.
A. The growth in number and proportion of older Americans
B. The projected primary care physician shortage by 2025
C. Increased number of individuals who have access to healthcare
D. The economic push for cost-effective healthcare
Question 7
The ARNP assessing lifestyle as a social determinant of health would ask about which of the
following?
A. Diet
B. Education
C. Health literacy
D. Inherited diseases
Question 8
In educating the patient beginning to take Lithium, the ARNP explains which of the
following related to diet and fluid intake?
A. Caffeine and alcohol act as hydration agents and can raise your lithium concentrations.
B. Drink at least a gallon or more of water per day and limit your salt intake.
C. If you go on a diet, your doctor may need to increase frequency of blood tests.
D. All of the above
Question 9
The goal of psychotropic treatment is to eliminate all manifestations of a disorder to below the
syndromal threshold, which is defined as which of the following?
A. Response
B. Remission
C. Resistance
D. Sensitization
Question 10
The NP can impact health policy and healthcare by doing which of the following?
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