NU 664 Set 1 Exam Questions With Accurate
Answers 2025\2026 A+ Grade
ARRN
- accurate answers-Clear expectations for licensures accreditation
certification and education for all APRNs
Standards/scope of practice
- accurate answers-Licensed and independent practitioners, assess, diagnosis
and treat and manage acute episodic and chronic illnesses.
Statutory Law
- accurate answers-States have a duty to protect those who receive nursing
care
Role of NONPF
- accurate answers-the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties.
This is the only organization specifically dedicated to promoting and
supporting high quality nurse practitioner education. The NONPF provides
ongoing support to NP educators through establishing competencies, methods
of evaluation, and strategic partnerships.
The NONPF primarily concentrates
- accurate answers-on the development of standards necessary to foster
optimum graduate educational programs. This network continually collects
data and utilizes expert knowledge of its membership to seminally publish
updated curricular frameworks
Clinical interview terms, techniques, and goals
- accurate answers-CC, HPI, PMH, Assessment, diagnosis, structured and
unstructured. MMSE, active listening.
Case formulation
- accurate answers-Theoretically based explanation or conceptualization of
the information obtained from a clinical assessment which offers a hypothesis
and provides a framework of treatment.
,Grief process and treatment
- accurate answers-Kubler Ross: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and
acceptance.
Instrumental: problem solving
Intuitive emotional
Risk assessment (suicide, self-harm, homicide, etc.) - protective and risks
factors
- accurate answers-Highest risk group- white, middle-aged males
Next highest- aged 85 and older
Screening tool- Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ)
- accurate answers-made of 4 questions to ask youth in medical settings
Common screening tools
- accurate answers-PHQ-9 for depression
Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS)
SAFE-T (Suicide Assessment Five-Step Evaluation and Triage)
Highest risk for self-injury
- accurate answers-socioeconomic disadvantage, depression, substance abuse,
and anxiety
Self-injury increases
- accurate answers-risk of later suicide
Primary prevention
- accurate answers-concerned with the prevention of the onset of disease; goal
is to reduce the incidence of disease; e.g. vaccinations
Secondary prevention
- accurate answers-concerned with trying to detect a disease early and
prevent it from getting worse; e.g. regular exams and screening tests
Tertiary prevention
- accurate answers-concerned with reducing the impact of an ongoing illness
or injury that has lasting effects; e.g. cardiac or stroke rehab programs,
support groups
, Levels of prevention
- accurate answers-primary, secondary, tertiary - this is important for public
patient education/screening/epidemiological measures, and promoting
health.
Neuroanatomy
- accurate answers-neurotransmitters, brain plasticity, epigenetics, major
areas of the brain such as the amygdala, prefrontal cortex, hypothalamus
Dopamine
- accurate answers-responsible for drive, motivation, and reward, inhibition of
prolactin, controls motor (imbalance causes Parkinson's, extapyramidal
symptoms)
Serotonin
- accurate answers-satisfaction, sociality, lowers anxiety and impulsivity,
decreases sex drive, 90% serotonin in GI tract
-Too much- bleeding, GI motility, nausea
- Zofran blocks serotonin
Norepinephrine
- accurate answers-concentration, attention, vigilance, energy, tachycardia,
HTN, glucose to essential organs
-Fear increases NE to brain, epinephrine to blood
-Fight or flight
Glutamate
- accurate answers-being "on", excitatory (think gluta-MATE mating)
GABA
- accurate answers-being "off", inhibitory, relaxation, euphoria, decreases
muscle activity, slows breathing, decreases anxiety and seizures (think
gabapentin)
Acetylcholine
- accurate answers-bradycardia, GI motility, salivation, lacrimation, urination,
sexual arousal, muscle contraction
- In the hippocampus- learning, memory, awakeness, attention
Answers 2025\2026 A+ Grade
ARRN
- accurate answers-Clear expectations for licensures accreditation
certification and education for all APRNs
Standards/scope of practice
- accurate answers-Licensed and independent practitioners, assess, diagnosis
and treat and manage acute episodic and chronic illnesses.
Statutory Law
- accurate answers-States have a duty to protect those who receive nursing
care
Role of NONPF
- accurate answers-the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties.
This is the only organization specifically dedicated to promoting and
supporting high quality nurse practitioner education. The NONPF provides
ongoing support to NP educators through establishing competencies, methods
of evaluation, and strategic partnerships.
The NONPF primarily concentrates
- accurate answers-on the development of standards necessary to foster
optimum graduate educational programs. This network continually collects
data and utilizes expert knowledge of its membership to seminally publish
updated curricular frameworks
Clinical interview terms, techniques, and goals
- accurate answers-CC, HPI, PMH, Assessment, diagnosis, structured and
unstructured. MMSE, active listening.
Case formulation
- accurate answers-Theoretically based explanation or conceptualization of
the information obtained from a clinical assessment which offers a hypothesis
and provides a framework of treatment.
,Grief process and treatment
- accurate answers-Kubler Ross: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and
acceptance.
Instrumental: problem solving
Intuitive emotional
Risk assessment (suicide, self-harm, homicide, etc.) - protective and risks
factors
- accurate answers-Highest risk group- white, middle-aged males
Next highest- aged 85 and older
Screening tool- Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ)
- accurate answers-made of 4 questions to ask youth in medical settings
Common screening tools
- accurate answers-PHQ-9 for depression
Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS)
SAFE-T (Suicide Assessment Five-Step Evaluation and Triage)
Highest risk for self-injury
- accurate answers-socioeconomic disadvantage, depression, substance abuse,
and anxiety
Self-injury increases
- accurate answers-risk of later suicide
Primary prevention
- accurate answers-concerned with the prevention of the onset of disease; goal
is to reduce the incidence of disease; e.g. vaccinations
Secondary prevention
- accurate answers-concerned with trying to detect a disease early and
prevent it from getting worse; e.g. regular exams and screening tests
Tertiary prevention
- accurate answers-concerned with reducing the impact of an ongoing illness
or injury that has lasting effects; e.g. cardiac or stroke rehab programs,
support groups
, Levels of prevention
- accurate answers-primary, secondary, tertiary - this is important for public
patient education/screening/epidemiological measures, and promoting
health.
Neuroanatomy
- accurate answers-neurotransmitters, brain plasticity, epigenetics, major
areas of the brain such as the amygdala, prefrontal cortex, hypothalamus
Dopamine
- accurate answers-responsible for drive, motivation, and reward, inhibition of
prolactin, controls motor (imbalance causes Parkinson's, extapyramidal
symptoms)
Serotonin
- accurate answers-satisfaction, sociality, lowers anxiety and impulsivity,
decreases sex drive, 90% serotonin in GI tract
-Too much- bleeding, GI motility, nausea
- Zofran blocks serotonin
Norepinephrine
- accurate answers-concentration, attention, vigilance, energy, tachycardia,
HTN, glucose to essential organs
-Fear increases NE to brain, epinephrine to blood
-Fight or flight
Glutamate
- accurate answers-being "on", excitatory (think gluta-MATE mating)
GABA
- accurate answers-being "off", inhibitory, relaxation, euphoria, decreases
muscle activity, slows breathing, decreases anxiety and seizures (think
gabapentin)
Acetylcholine
- accurate answers-bradycardia, GI motility, salivation, lacrimation, urination,
sexual arousal, muscle contraction
- In the hippocampus- learning, memory, awakeness, attention
