A 21-year-old woman receives a diagnosis of Crohn's disease. The nurse practitioner provides education about the diagnosis. Which of the following statements by the patient indicates the need for further teaching?

A 34-year-old woman is diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome. Which of the following treatments does NOT improve function in carpal tunnel syndrome?

A 52-year-old woman with a history of a bilateral oophorectomy presents to the nurse practitioner with complaints of vaginal bleeding and pelvic pain for 2 weeks. What is the best next step?

A 17-year-old girl is referred to the PMHNP after pulling her eyebrow hair out to the point of scarring. She says she has a "unibrow" and looks like a "Neanderthal" unless she pulls out the hair. The PMHNP asks to see a photo of the patient before she started pulling out her hair; it was not unusual. What is the most appropriate diagnosis?

A PMHNP would like to monitor a client's progress in anxiety symptom reduction over time using a clinician-administered anxiety rating scale. Which of the following is the most commonly used clinician-administered anxiety rating scale?

During a psychiatric evaluation, the psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner conducts a psychiatric review of systems (ROS) in which he reviews common psychiatric symptoms that may not have been elicited in the history of present illness (HPI). Which of the following questions is most likely designed to elicit a response for the system "anxiety"?

In which phase of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) does the client activate the memory by visualizing the trauma, identify associated thoughts, and establish a baseline for emotional and physical reaction to the trauma?

A 21-month-old boy presents to the nurse practitioner with a suspected case of acute atopic dermatitis. Which of the following statements by the child’s mother demonstrates a need for further education about her son's diagnosis?

A 59-year-old woman diagnosed with moderate osteoarthritis (OA) of the right knee asks the nurse practitioner about her treatment options. Which of the following is NOT considered an option for a patient with moderate OA of the knee?

Which of the following cardiac problems mimics anxiety with symptoms of tachycardia, chest pain, dizziness, and panic?

A 25-year-old married woman explains to the PMHNP that she spends an inordinate amount of time tweezing her eyebrows every evening. She says she has anxiety when she looks in the mirror and sees asymmetry in her eyebrows. She tries to pull every hair that is out of place. This can take more than an hour each evening, and it is becoming problematic because she is still unhappy after tweezing. She only stops when her husband demands it, after telling her how beautiful she is and that the asymmetry is "all in her head." She still feels an urge to tweeze her eyebrows every night in an attempt to "fix" them. What diagnosis is the most appropriate?