Psychiatric-Mental Health RN Board Certification Exam Practice Questions: 100 Test-Relevant Questions with Discussions, Answers, and Rationales - Paperback

by Alison Lighthall Miller (Author)

Preparing to take ANCC's Psychiatric-Mental Health RN Board Certification Exam is an important step in elevating your career to the next level. Going through test-relevant, professionally written practice questions are a crucial part of your preparing for this important exam. They will help you become familiar with the way ANCC writes its test questions and the topics that ANCC covers in its PMHN exam.

But just knowing the answer to a question isn't enough. You have to know why it's correct. And, maybe even more importantly, you need to know why the other three options are wrong!

These 100 practice questions, written by Alison Lighthall Miller, MSN, PMHRN-BC, a well-respected psychiatric nurse educator with more than 30 years of experience, provides you with everything you need. This includes:

• test-relevant questions that are carefully researched and written in the exact style that ANCC writes theirs
• questions on topics that are on ANCC's most recently launched exam (September 2024)
• discussions on how best to think about and understand what the question is really asking
• clear, non-academic language
• a full explanation as to why one answer is correct AND...
• rationales as to why three of the options are wrong

Some of the topics tested on and discussed in this books are:

• Psychiatric disorders you'll find on ANCC's exam
• Psychotropic medications
• Critical lab values psychiatric nurses must know
• Signs and symptoms of NMS, EPS, and other adverse reactions
• A review of the new neuromodulation treatments
• Standards of Practice, Principles of Ethical Care, and
• Trauma informed care
• Three kinds of crisis
• Stages of behavioral change
• A brief review of relevant theorists
• Defense mechanism
• Therapeutic communication
• Psychiatric emergencies and legal considerations
• Commonly used psychiatric terms
• The Tarasoff Rule and Duty to Warn
• AIMS, COWS, CIWA, MMSE, and the Broset assessment tools
• Serotonin syndrome
• Extrapyramidal symptoms
• Delirium vs dementia
• Understanding and caring for those with personality disorders
• Nursing interventions for each category of psychiatric disorder

...and so much more!

In addition to valuable, research-based information provided on some of the tested topics, this book also provides you with websites and QR codes that link you to additional materials, relevant to your exam preparation.

No where else will you find so much insightful information on PMHN Board Certification test questions! Written by an experienced psychiatric nurse educator who, since 2017, has been helping thousands of psychiatric nurses just like you pass ANCC's exam the first time.

You can find Alison at https: //PMHRN.com or on her social media platforms:

https: //www.youtube.com/@pmhrn1235

https: //www.instagram.com/pmhrnllc

https: //www.facebook.com/PsychNursesUnite