PMHNP Care Across the Lifespan II - Walden University
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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.
CORRECT ANSWER: C
RATIONALE:
• Older adults generally have reduced hepatic metabolism and renal
excretion, so they metabolize drugs more slowly, not more rapidly.
• Thus, they tend to accumulate medications longer and are prone to toxicity.
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QUESTION 2
The treatment of others equitably and the fair distribution of
benefits/burdens is known as which of the following?
A. Fidelity
B. Justice
C. Beneficence
D. Non-maleficence
CORRECT ANSWER: B
RATIONALE:
• Justice is about fairness and equitable allocation of resources.
,• Fidelity = loyalty, Beneficence = doing good, Non-maleficence = do no
harm.
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QUESTION 3
Persons who subordinate their own needs to those of others, allow others to
assume responsibility for major areas of their lives, lack self-confidence, and
may experience intense discomfort when alone for more than a brief period
of time are demonstrating characteristics of which personality disorder?
A. Avoidant personality disorder
B. Passive personality disorder
C. Dependent personality disorder
D. Antisocial personality disorder
CORRECT ANSWER: C
RATIONALE:
• Dependent personality disorder involves pervasive dependence on others,
difficulty making decisions independently, and a significant fear of separation
or abandonment.
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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
, CORRECT ANSWER: C
RATIONALE:
• Effective mentor-mentee relationships are typically voluntary, long-term,
and characterized by mutual goal-setting.
• They are not simply “assigned” or necessarily short-term.
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QUESTION 5
A form of child abuse in which a caretaker repeatedly fabricates or
deliberately causes illness or injury in a child (leading to medical
intervention) is known as which of the following?
A. Korsakoff’s syndrome
B. Snyder’s syndrome
C. Munchausen syndrome
D. Munchausen syndrome by proxy
CORRECT ANSWER: D
RATIONALE:
• Munchausen syndrome by proxy = factitious disorder imposed on another,
usually the child, by a caregiver.
• Munchausen syndrome (without “by proxy”) involves factitious disorder
imposed on oneself.
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QUESTION 6