ANCC Comprehensive Review Exam
Questions And Answers
The healthcare provider's "duty to _____" is derived from Tarasoff v.
Regents of the University of ______ - correct answer ✅warn
California
prohibits a physician from making referrals to an entity for certain
healthcare services, if the physician has a financial relationship with the
entity. - correct answer ✅Stark Law
frontal lobe is associated with - correct answer ✅Reasoning, planning,
parts of speech, movement, emotions, and problem solving
What region of the frontal lobes that is most typically associated with
executive functions including:
- working memory
- selective attention
? - correct answer ✅dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
Synaptic _______ is a natural process that occurs in the brain between
early childhood and adulthood.
The brain ______ extra synapses - correct answer ✅pruning, eliminates
the ________ pathway is relevant to positive symptoms of
schizophrenia - correct answer ✅mesolimbic
,ANCC Comprehensive Review Exam
Questions And Answers
Mesocortical pathway is related to ________ symptoms in
schizophrenics - correct answer ✅negative
__________ Involved in the control of balance, posture - correct answer
✅Cerebellum
________ involves conscious thought and control - correct answer
✅Cerebrum
Receives and interprets sensory information
EXCEPT smell, hearing and vision - correct answer ✅Parietal
Receives information from ALL sensory association locations.
Creates personality by using sensory information, visual and auditory
memories - correct answer ✅Wernickes Area
Regulates breathing patterns and vocalization - correct answer ✅Broca
Coordinates information from the entire cortex
,ANCC Comprehensive Review Exam
Questions And Answers
Generates feelings of frustration, tension and anxiety - correct answer
✅Prefrontal Cortex
This disorder is an intense, unpleasant, and dysfunctional reaction
beginning shortly after an overwhelming traumatic event and lasting <
month. - correct answer ✅Acute stress
If the acute episode lasts longer than a month it is defined as? - correct
answer ✅PTSD
· 1st line treatment for acute manic episodes- _______
TR range?
What is the best time to measure? - correct answer ✅Lithium
0.5-1.5
12 hours after the dose
MDD:
__ or more symptoms present during the same 2-week period &
present a change from ________ functioning - correct answer ✅5
previous
on MMSE a score of < ____ a possible dementia - correct answer ✅24
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