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 When assessing a patient with mental complaints or concerns or disordered behavior, you must first determine if the patient can provide a history via interview. If the patient is capable, which of the following is the best way to conduct this type of psychiatric interview?

Another psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner is reviewing a patient chart with you. You are a PMHNP student and eager to learn. The PMHNP asks you which of the following medications this patient may be taking.   Patient stated on admission: “I am on several medications. I have been on them for years, I have always been depressed and nothing works well. I don’t know what the medication names are. All I know if that they told me I can not eat fermented foods. Who wants to eat fermented foods anyways yuck!” Based on the statement made by the patient on intake when reviewing current medications, you determine that which medication is likely being taken?

You have diagnosed this patient with depression and anxiety, based on her current symptoms.  This patient has a history of suicidal thoughts, and one suicide prior suicide attempt (an overdoes on prescription medications).  You are reviewing your orders in preparation of discharging the patient.  You would question sending the patient home with a prescription of which of the following medications?

A suicidal patient with chronic depressive disorder presents to your office in tears. He tells you he cannot stop thinking about ending his life because he is so depressed. You ask him if he has a plan, and he details where he could buy a gun and where he would go to shoot himself. You worry that the patient will carry out this plan because he has not had adequate control of his symptoms since his last antidepressant change one month ago. You discuss inpatient hospitalization for stabilization but the patient refuses. Your next step in management of this patient would be to:

Symptoms of depression and anxiety are associated with a low level of which neurotransmitter?

After your intake of a patient exhibiting symptoms of Major depressive Disorder (which she has been exhibiting for months), you receive the results of your patients thyroid panel (below).  What is your next course of action?

A 32-year-old female patient informs the psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner that she is three months pregnant. She has been stable on fluoxetine hydrochloride (Prozac) for the last two years. The patient asks whether she may safely continue this medication during her pregnancy. The nurse practitioner responds: Choose the best answer

The most sensitive serum measure of iron deficiency is:

What is the formula weight of Co(NO3)3?  

In the energy diagram shown below, identify the letter that corresponds to the factor that provides information about the rate of a reaction (i.e.  how fast or slow the reaction happens)?