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PMHNP ANCC EXAM 2 NEWEST 2025 ACTUAL EXAM|
COMPLETE 150 REAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED
ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+| PMHNP
CERTIFICATION EXAM REVIEW 2025 (BRAND NEW!!)
One of the health care changes that has occurred as a result of the affordable care act (ACA) is that doctors/hospitals/clinic groups or health systems are coming together and assuming the responsibility for quality care to large groups of individuals insured by Medicare. The health care clinics/systems doctors or hospitals that join together are called which of the following?
a) Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)
b) Preferred Provider Network (PPO)
c) Accountable Care Organization (ACO)
d) Individual Health Plan (IHP) - Correct Answer - Correct Answer: C.
ACO's are groups of doctors or other health care providers who voluntarily come together and assume the care provided to Medicare patients.
Health care economics is concerned with making decisions so the benefits outweigh the cost of resource utilization. What are two concepts that healthcare economics is concerned with in regard to fair distribution of resources and allocation?
a) Equity and efficiency
b) Cost and benefits
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d) Affordable and quality - Correct Answer - Correct Answer: A. Health
care efficiency is making risk and benefit decision about how care resources are allocated and equity is ensuring that there is a fair distribution of the resources.
What four elements need to be present for a malpractice lawsuit to be filed?
a) Beneficence, Non-Maleficence, Truthfulness, and Justice
b) Duty of care, Breach of standard of care, Injury, and Injury must be
related to breach of the standard of care
c) Abandonment, Breach of care, Violation of ethics, and
Reimbursement for poor care
d) Breach of standard of care, Injury, Deceit, and Malpractice - Correct
Answer - B. The four elements that must be satisfied for malpractice to have occurred are a duty of care between clinician and patient, breach of standard of care, an injury to the patient, and the patient's injury must be related to the clinician's breach of care.
Mary is a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) who is working in a hospitalist role. Mary has encountered over five incidences in which attending psychiatrists and medical residents have been demeaning to nursing staff and not answering calls in the middle of the night or telling the nursing staff to write orders and the MD would sign off in the a.m. Mary is concerned about errors and wants to improve quality, reduce errors to promote safety. What concept is Mary employing?
a) Bullying
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c) Civil Disobedience
d) Just Culture - Correct Answer - D. The ANA has a position statement
that nurses are responsible for developing health care settings that include just culture initiatives understanding that human error can cause error and harm by creating an open and fair environment.
The role of neurotransmitters in the central nervous system is to function as
a) A communication medium
b) A gatekeeper for transmissions
c) A building block for amino acids
d) An agent to break down enzymes - Correct Answer - A.
Neurotransmitters in the central nervous system function as a communication medium.
Serotonin is produced in which of the following locations:
a) Locus ceruleus
b) Nucleus basalis
c) Raphe nuclei
d) Substantia nigra - Correct Answer - C. Serotonin is produced in the
raphe nuclei.
Dopamine is produced in which of the following locations:
a) Locus ceruleus
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c) Raphe nucle
d) Substantia nigra - Correct Answer - D. Dopamine is produced in the
substantia nigra.
A client presents with complaints of changes in appetite, feeling fatigued, problems with sleep-rest cycle, and changes in libido. What is the neuroanatomical area of the brain that is responsible for the normal regulation of these functions?
a) Thalamus
b) Hypothalamus
c) Limbic system
d) Hippocampus - Correct Answer - B. Appetite, sleep, and libido are
regulated by the hypothalamus.
In considering whether to order an MRI of the head for a client, which of the following would be a contraindication to this diagnostic test?
a) Prosthetic limb
b) History of head trauma
c) Pacemaker
d) Pregnancy - Correct Answer - C. A client with a pacemaker should
not receive an MRI of the head.
The primary excitatory neurotransmitter is
a) GABA
b) Serotonin
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