PMHNP Exam Question 71
You are working in an ER setting as a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner. You are asked to consult on a 45-year-old male patient in a psychiatric crisis. The ER physician believes the patient is in a psychotic state due to methamphetamine abuse, as his urine drug screen was positive for methamphetamines. You speak with the patient's mother and learn that the patient has suffered from chronic schizophrenia since the age of 18 and had previously been stabilized on Abilify for his psychosis and another medication for his depression. The mother further endorses that her son refuses to take the Abilify because he does not "feel" schizophrenic any longer. He has, however, continued to take his antidepressant medication for depression. You suspect that the patient is in a psychotic crisis due to the discontinuation of Abilify and not due to methamphetamine intoxication.
Which of the following findings are supportive of your diagnosis?
Which of the following findings are supportive of your diagnosis?
PMHNP Exam Question 72
There is a tool that is useful in learning more about oneself by creating a word portrait of a person in four areas to indicate how well that person know himself. This tool is which of the following?
PMHNP Exam Question 73
You are treating a 45-year-old patient who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and treated with thioridazine (Mellaril) for the past 15 years. You decide to switch the patient to a different antipsychotic due to what serious long-term consequence that is specific to high-dose thioridazine?
PMHNP Exam Question 74
Which of the following terms may refer to a provider other than an advanced practice nurse?
PMHNP Exam Question 75
The psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner must determine the bipolar-ADHD boundary in a 10-year-old male child. Diagnosis can be difficult because there are symptoms that are similar to each and some that are different. One symptom more common to bipolar disorder but very rare with ADHD is:
