While performing a mental status exam, the PMHNP asks the patient to count backwards, beginning with 100 and subtracting 7. This is an effort to assess which element of the mental status exam?

A. Concentration

B. Orientation

C. Visuospatial function

D. Recall

A new patient is being evaluated at the request of her primary care provider. While conducting the interview the PMHNP has a very difficult time getting direct answers to questions. The patient will try to answer but often drifts off topic, talking about things that appear related, but she never actually answers the question. The PMHNP documents which abnormality of thought process?

A. Circumstantiality

B. Tangentiality

C. Perseveration

D. Flight of ideas
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When counseling the parents of a 7-year-old patient regarding pharmacotherapy for attention deficit disorder, the PMHNP identifies which clinically relevant difference between clonidine and guanfacine?

A. Guanfacine may be used as adjunct therapy to psychostimulants.

B. Clonidine is available in a long-acting formulation.

C. Clonidine is selective for alpha-2a adrenergic receptors.

D. Guanfacine is appreciably less sedating.
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