A 25 year –old-man comes to the nurse practitioner with a chief complaint of depressed mood for most days over a period of 12 months. His mother, to whom he was very close, died 1 year ago, and since that time he has felt sad, detached, and a strong desire to join his mother. He has not sleeping soundly and is frequently tearful. Which of the following diagnoses is most likely?

A client with Parkinson’s disease​ (PD) is prescribed benztropine to treat tremors and rigidity. The nurse should teach the client about which adverse effect they may experience from this​ medication? (Select all that​ apply)

A nurse is providing care for a 17-year-old about to graduate from high school. Which of the following behaviors does the nurse identify as successful progression through the stages of Erikson’s theory of development?

Grief can be described as:

Which of the following food items should be strictly prohibited in patients taking monoamine oxidase inhibitors?

Which characteristic of sertraline (Zoloft) provides the greatest degree of safety for patients who have severe depression?

Your patient in the partial hospitalization program (PHP) has come in for his appointment today.  You are running behind and front desk staff notifies the patient that there will be about a 10-minute delay.  The patient begins shouting at the front desk staff that this isn’t fair and kicks over the trash can in the lobby.  Then he picks up an object from the trash and proceeds to throw it toward the administrative staff and is threatening harm to the staff.   The chart indicates no allergies.  What is the most important intervention at this point?

You are the PMHNP performing consults in the emergency department. You get a call to see an emergency department patient who was brought in by the police when he was found wandering around the neighborhood at 2 am without any clothes on in winter. His toxicology screen is positive for fentanyl and cocaine, negative for alcohol and other substances. By the time you get to the emergency department, you are told that the patient has eloped after telling staff that he doesn’t need any help with his drug use and that it’s not a problem. What stage of change is this patient exhibiting (per the Transtheoretical Model of Change)?

Some breeds of dogs that are specialized to retrieve objects from bodies of water have webbing between their toes. A change in what cellular response to positional information during digit formation could account for this morphological feature?

O is a 25 year old, obese trans male referred to your office by their PCP for a mental health referral for top surgery. When discussing expected outcomes from top surgery, O reports that “everything will get better” after top surgery. What is the best response for the APRN-PMHNP to provide?