NU 664 Set 1 Actual Exam 2025 NU 664 Set
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Correct Answers Rated A+
ARRN -Answer-Clear expectations for licensures accreditation
certification and education for all APRNs
Standards/scope of practice -Answer-Licensed and independent
practitioners, assess, diagnosis and treat and manage acute episodic
and chronic illnesses.
Statutory Law -Answer-States have a duty to protect those who
receive nursing care
Role of NONPF -Answer-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 -Answer-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 -Answer-CC, HPI,
PMH, Assessment, diagnosis, structured and unstructured. MMSE,
active listening.
,Case formulation -Answer-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 -Answer-Kubler Ross: denial, anger,
bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
Instrumental: problem solving
Intuitive emotional
Risk assessment (suicide, self-harm, homicide, etc.) - protective and
risks factors -Answer-Highest risk group- white, middle-aged males
Next highest- aged 85 and older
Screening tool- Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) -Answer-
made of 4 questions to ask youth in medical settings
Common screening tools -Answer-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 -Answer-socioeconomic disadvantage,
depression, substance abuse, and anxiety
Self-injury increases -Answer-risk of later suicide
Primary prevention -Answer-concerned with the prevention of the
onset of disease; goal is to reduce the incidence of disease; e.g.
vaccinations
, Secondary prevention -Answer-concerned with trying to detect a
disease early and prevent it from getting worse; e.g. regular exams
and screening tests
Tertiary prevention -Answer-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 -Answer-primary, secondary, tertiary - this is
important for public patient education/screening/epidemiological
measures, and promoting health.
Neuroanatomy -Answer-neurotransmitters, brain plasticity,
epigenetics, major areas of the brain such as the amygdala, prefrontal
cortex, hypothalamus
Dopamine -Answer-responsible for drive, motivation, and reward,
inhibition of prolactin, controls motor (imbalance causes Parkinson's,
extapyramidal symptoms)
Serotonin -Answer-satisfaction, sociality, lowers anxiety and
impulsivity, decreases sex drive, 90% serotonin in GI tract
-Too much- bleeding, GI motility, nausea
- Zofran blocks serotonin
Norepinephrine -Answer-concentration, attention, vigilance, energy,
tachycardia, HTN, glucose to essential organs
-Fear increases NE to brain, epinephrine to blood
-Fight or flight
Glutamate -Answer-being "on", excitatory (think gluta-MATE mating)
1 Exam Latest Update 2025 Questions and
Correct Answers Rated A+
ARRN -Answer-Clear expectations for licensures accreditation
certification and education for all APRNs
Standards/scope of practice -Answer-Licensed and independent
practitioners, assess, diagnosis and treat and manage acute episodic
and chronic illnesses.
Statutory Law -Answer-States have a duty to protect those who
receive nursing care
Role of NONPF -Answer-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 -Answer-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 -Answer-CC, HPI,
PMH, Assessment, diagnosis, structured and unstructured. MMSE,
active listening.
,Case formulation -Answer-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 -Answer-Kubler Ross: denial, anger,
bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
Instrumental: problem solving
Intuitive emotional
Risk assessment (suicide, self-harm, homicide, etc.) - protective and
risks factors -Answer-Highest risk group- white, middle-aged males
Next highest- aged 85 and older
Screening tool- Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) -Answer-
made of 4 questions to ask youth in medical settings
Common screening tools -Answer-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 -Answer-socioeconomic disadvantage,
depression, substance abuse, and anxiety
Self-injury increases -Answer-risk of later suicide
Primary prevention -Answer-concerned with the prevention of the
onset of disease; goal is to reduce the incidence of disease; e.g.
vaccinations
, Secondary prevention -Answer-concerned with trying to detect a
disease early and prevent it from getting worse; e.g. regular exams
and screening tests
Tertiary prevention -Answer-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 -Answer-primary, secondary, tertiary - this is
important for public patient education/screening/epidemiological
measures, and promoting health.
Neuroanatomy -Answer-neurotransmitters, brain plasticity,
epigenetics, major areas of the brain such as the amygdala, prefrontal
cortex, hypothalamus
Dopamine -Answer-responsible for drive, motivation, and reward,
inhibition of prolactin, controls motor (imbalance causes Parkinson's,
extapyramidal symptoms)
Serotonin -Answer-satisfaction, sociality, lowers anxiety and
impulsivity, decreases sex drive, 90% serotonin in GI tract
-Too much- bleeding, GI motility, nausea
- Zofran blocks serotonin
Norepinephrine -Answer-concentration, attention, vigilance, energy,
tachycardia, HTN, glucose to essential organs
-Fear increases NE to brain, epinephrine to blood
-Fight or flight
Glutamate -Answer-being "on", excitatory (think gluta-MATE mating)
