NRNP 6675 Midterm Exam Questions and Answers: 2024

  1. Variations from norms in gender role behavior such as toy preferences, rough-and-tumble play, aggression, or playmate gender is known as which of the following?
  2. a) Gender identity
    b) Gender role disorder
    c) Childhood gender non-conformity
    d) Gender dysphoria

Answer: c) Childhood gender non-conformity

  1. A psychotic condition that involves the sudden onset of psychotic symptoms, which lasts one day or more but less than 1 month with full return to the premorbid level of functioning is known as which of the following?
  2. a) Schizophrenia
    b) Brief psychotic disorder
    c) Delusional disorder
    d) Schizophreniform disorder

Answer: b) Brief psychotic disorder

  1. An acute neurological disorder characterized by ataxia, vestibular dysfunction, confusion, and a variety of ocular motility abnormalities is known as which of the following?
  2. a) Korsakoff syndrome
    b) Wernicke’s encephalopathy
    c) Huntington’s disease
    d) Parkinson’s disease

Answer: b) Wernicke’s encephalopathy

  1. Major neurotransmitters possibly involved in developing substance abuse and substance dependence include which of the following?
  2. a) Dopamine
    b) GABA
    c) Serotonin
    d) A and B only

Answer: d) A and B only

  1. The phenomenon in which, after repeated administration, a given dose of drug produces a decreased effect is known as which of the following?
  2. a) Withdrawal
    b) Tolerance
    c) Dependence
    d) Addiction

Answer: b) Tolerance

  1. A patient who presents with the inability to remain still, with motor restlessness, would be assessed to have which of the following?
  2. a) Akathisia
    b) Dystonia
    c) Pseudo-parkinsonism
    d) Akinesia

Answer: a) Akathisia

  1. A condition in which an enzymatic defect in the production of adrenal cortisol, beginning prenatally, leads to overproduction of adrenal androgens and, when the chromosomes are XX, virilization of the female fetus, is known as which of the following?
  2. a) Addison’s disease
    b) Cushing’s syndrome
    c) Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
    d) Hypogonadism

Answer: c) Congenital adrenal hyperplasia

  1. Recurrent, persistent genital pain occurring before, during, or after intercourse is known as which of the following?
  2. a) Vaginismus
    b) Dyspareunia
    c) Endometriosis
    d) Pelvic inflammatory disease

Answer: b) Dyspareunia

  1. A patient with a history of Alcohol Use Disorder presents with confusion, clouding of consciousness, myoclonus, oppositional hypertonia, fatigue, apathy, irritability, anorexia, and insomnia. Symptoms do not improve with thiamine treatment. This presentation is consistent with which of the following?
  2. a) Korsakoff’s syndrome
    b) Alcohol-induced Persisting Dementia
    c) Delirium tremens
    d) Wernicke’s encephalopathy

Answer: b) Alcohol-induced Persisting Dementia

  1. Nystagmus, or marked slurring of speech and blackouts, are likely impairments at which of the following blood alcohol concentrations?
  2. a) 50-100 mg/dL
    b) 100-150 mg/dL
    c) 200-300 mg/dL
    d) 400-500 mg/dL

Answer: c) 200-300 mg/dL

  1. Which of the following is consistent with the epidemiology of schizophrenia in the United States?
  2. a) Peak age of onset in women is 50-60 years
    b) Peak age of onset in men is 10 to 25 years
    c) Schizophrenia is more common in women than in men
    d) There are no gender differences in onset

Answer: b) Peak age of onset in men is 10 to 25 years

  1. Persons with a marked incongruence between their experienced or expressed gender and the gender they were assigned at birth is known as which of the following?
  2. a) Gender identity disorder
    b) Gender dysphoria
    c) Transgender
    d) Intersex

Answer: b) Gender dysphoria

  1. A patient who presents absent movement, with difficulty starting activities, flat affect, and avolition would be assessed as having which of the following?
  2. a) Akathisia
    b) Dystonia
    c) Akinesia
    d) Pseudo-Parkinson’s

Answer: c) Akinesia

  1. The nursing practice model recommended for NPs by the National Academy of Medicine and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing is which of the following?
  2. a) Restricted practice
    b) Collaborative practice
    c) Full practice
    d) Partial practice

Answer: c) Full practice

  1. The symptoms of prolonged erection in the absence of sexual stimuli is known as which of the following?
  2. a) Erectile dysfunction
    b) Priapism
    c) Retrograde ejaculation
    d) Peyronie’s disease

Answer: b) Priapism