Sample Test Questions ANCC – PMHNP
2024-2025. Real Questions and Answers.
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1. When lobbying a local congressional representative to include nurse practitioners in
reimbursement for services in all areas of the country, an adult psychiatric and mental
health nurse practitioner emphasizes the:
A. ability of nurse practitioners to provide health care that patients need.
B. fact that nurse practitioners are caring in their patient care delivery.
C. importance of broadening the scope of nursing practice.
D. necessity of offering equivalent services both to urban and rural patients. - ANSA.
ability of nurse practitioners to provide health care that patients need.
2. For 12 years, a 65-year-old patient with bipolar affective disorder has been treated
with lithium (Eskalith) 900 mg daily. When oral hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) 12.5 mg
daily is added for hypertension, the patient develops nausea, vomiting, ataxia, and
muscle weakness and the patient's serum lithium level is 2.0 mEq/L. The interaction of
the lithium and the thiazide diuretic has induced:
A. hypokalemia.
B. hyponatremia.
C. increased renal clearance of lithium.
D. reduced renal clearance of lithium. - ANSD. reduced renal clearance of lithium.
3. Which statement by a male patient who has posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
and chronic persistent suicidal ideation indicates a need for hospital assessment?
A. "I feel so bad all the time. I wish I were dead."
B. "My wife is so scared that she has taken all my guns out of the house."
C. "My wife just left with the children. I have no one left and no future."
D. "Those medications you gave me make me feel worse. I stopped taking them." -
ANSC. "My wife just left with the children. I have no one left and no future."
4. A male patient informs an adult psychiatric and mental health nurse practitioner that
he has not slept in three days, has poor concentration, and denies fatigue. The patient's
diagnosis is:
A. attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
B. bipolar disorder.
C. panic disorder.
D. primary insomnia. - ANSB. bipolar disorder.
5. During patient education about sertraline (Zoloft), an adult psychiatric and mental
health nurse practitioner focuses upon the potential side effect of:
A. agranulocytosis.
B. hypernatremia.
