CORRECT QUESTIONS & ANSWERS)
Concerns when treating geriatric clients with psychotherapeutic drugs includeall 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 of the 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 for major areas of the lives, lack self-confidence, and may experience
intense discomfort when alonefor more than
a brief period of time are demonstrating characteristics consistent with which of the
following personality disorders?
• Avoidant personality disorder
• Passive personality disorder
✔️ C. Dependent personalitydisorder
D. Antisocial personality disorder
Question 4
According to Sullivan, which of the following are consistent with a mentor/mentee
relationship?
• Mentors are assigned
,• Mentor relationships are shorter term
✔️ C. Goals for the mentoring relationship are setmutually.
D. A and B only
Question 5
A form of child abuse in which a parent or caretaker repeatedly fabricates or actually
inflictsinjury or
illness in a child for whom medical intervention is then sought, often in an emergency
setting, is known as
which of the following?
• Korsakoff's syndrome
• Snyder's syndrome
• Munchausen syndrome
✔️ D. Munchausen syndrome byproxy
Question 6
The need for nurse practitioners to practice to the full extent of their education and
trainingis necessary
for which of the following reasons? Select all that apply.
• 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 tohealthcare
✔️ 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
• Education
• Health literacy
• Inheriteddiseases
Question 8
In educating the client beginning to take Lithium, the ARNP explains which of the
followingrelated to
diet and fluid intake?
, Caffeine and alcohol act as hydration agents and can raise your lithium
concentrations.
• Drink at least a gallon or more of water per day and limit your salt intake.
• 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
belowthe 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?
• Become an active member of local, state, and/or national NP organizations.
• Become familiar with the resources available on NP organization websites.
• Volunteer to serve on legislative committees within
professional NPorganizations.
✔️ D. All the above
Question 11
A term used to describe individuals and families who are found to live in overcrowded
homes, relocate
frequently, and struggle to pay rent and monthly expenses is which of the following?
• Homelessness
• Housinginstability
• Transiency
✔️ D. A and B
Question 12
Which of the following is consistent with current literature regarding the epidemiology of
dependent
personality disorder?
• Dependent personality is more common in men than in women.
• Dependent personality disorder is more common in young children than in older ones.