AANP Review Coverage Test
Comprehensive Questions and Answers
Verified Solutions Latest Update
2026/2027
Question:
Statistics.
Answer:
- leading causes of death: Heart disease, cancer, lung disease
- leading cause of cancer death: lung
- leading cause of death in adolescents: accidents
- most common cancer: skin.
- in males: prostate. in females: breast
suicide: males more successful, women more attempts. highest rate is older white males.
Question:
Osgood-Schlatter:.
Answer:
knee pain in young adults, overuse. Repetitive stress pain, tenderness, swelling at the tendon's
insertion site. The tibial tuberosity. Rule out avulsion fracture if there is an acute onset and order a
lateral xray. RICE. Usually stops when the growth stops.
Question:
If patient has right sided weakness, etc. the CVA occurred where.
Answer:
left side
Question:
initial evaluation of symptoms of acute prostatitis.
,Answer:
Urinalysis and urine culture
Question:
A 65-year-old woman presents for a follow-up examination after a new patient visit. She has not
seen a healthcare provider for several years. She is a smoker and her hypertension is now
adequately controlled with medication. Her mother died at age 40 from a heart attack. The fasting
lipid profile shows cholesterol = 240 mg/dL, HDL = 30, and LDL = 200. In addition to starting
Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes, the nurse practitioner should start the patient on:
1. bile acid sequestrant.
2. a statin drug.
3. a cholesterol absorption inhibitor.
4. low-dose aspirin..
Answer:
A statin drug
Question:
Ortolani's Click.
Answer:
a click is heard or felt as dislocation is reduced (developmental dysplasia of hip) (good until one
year)
Question:
Which of the following laboratory tests should a nurse practitioner order when the suspected
diagnosis is temporal arteritis?.
Answer:
Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)
Question:
What are narrow therapeutic index drugs?.
Answer:
,1. Warfarin sodium (Coumadin): monitor INR
2. Digoxin (lanoxin): monitor digoxin level, EKG,
electrolytes(potassium, magnesium, calcium)
3. Theophylline: monitor blood levels
4. Carbamazepime (Tegretol) and Phenytoin (Dilantin): Monitor blood
levels
5. Levothyroxine: Monitor TSH
6. Lithium: Monitor blood levels, TSH (risk of hypothyroidism)
Question:
Otitis Externa tx.
Answer:
Fluoroquinolone & Polymyxin B cortisporin drops
Question:
An elderly male patient complains of a new-onset, left-sided temporal headache accompanied by
scalp tenderness and indurated temporal artery. The NP suspects temporal arteritis. What screening
test would you order to assist with diagnosis?.
Answer:
sedimentation rate (expect to be very elevated)
Question:
Basal Cell Carcinoma.
Answer:
Pearly domed nodule with overlaying telangiectatic vessels. Could be plaque, papule, possible
central ulceration and crusting. Dx: Biopsy Tx:
Question:
Normal, healthy woman of reproductive age.
Answer:
white, clear, flocculent(physiologic leukorrhea), no complaints, pH 3.8-4.2 (toward acidic), no
odor, microscopic shows lactobacilli (gram+bacteria)
, Question:
Multiple infections from bacteria and fungus?.
Answer:
Screen for HIV
Question:
Screening Tests.
Answer:
- sensitivity: detect those WITH the disease. higher the
sensitivity is higher the false positives
- Specificty: detect those who DONT have the disease.
Question:
erythromycin for chlamydia eye infection in infants.
Answer:
...
Question:
to assess pts ability to think abstractly a nurse pract could ask the patient.
Answer:
the meaning of a common proverb
Question:
The most commonly prescribed medication for mild systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is:
1.
azathioprine (AZA).
2.
belimumab (Benlysta).
3.
ibuprofen (Advil).
Comprehensive Questions and Answers
Verified Solutions Latest Update
2026/2027
Question:
Statistics.
Answer:
- leading causes of death: Heart disease, cancer, lung disease
- leading cause of cancer death: lung
- leading cause of death in adolescents: accidents
- most common cancer: skin.
- in males: prostate. in females: breast
suicide: males more successful, women more attempts. highest rate is older white males.
Question:
Osgood-Schlatter:.
Answer:
knee pain in young adults, overuse. Repetitive stress pain, tenderness, swelling at the tendon's
insertion site. The tibial tuberosity. Rule out avulsion fracture if there is an acute onset and order a
lateral xray. RICE. Usually stops when the growth stops.
Question:
If patient has right sided weakness, etc. the CVA occurred where.
Answer:
left side
Question:
initial evaluation of symptoms of acute prostatitis.
,Answer:
Urinalysis and urine culture
Question:
A 65-year-old woman presents for a follow-up examination after a new patient visit. She has not
seen a healthcare provider for several years. She is a smoker and her hypertension is now
adequately controlled with medication. Her mother died at age 40 from a heart attack. The fasting
lipid profile shows cholesterol = 240 mg/dL, HDL = 30, and LDL = 200. In addition to starting
Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes, the nurse practitioner should start the patient on:
1. bile acid sequestrant.
2. a statin drug.
3. a cholesterol absorption inhibitor.
4. low-dose aspirin..
Answer:
A statin drug
Question:
Ortolani's Click.
Answer:
a click is heard or felt as dislocation is reduced (developmental dysplasia of hip) (good until one
year)
Question:
Which of the following laboratory tests should a nurse practitioner order when the suspected
diagnosis is temporal arteritis?.
Answer:
Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)
Question:
What are narrow therapeutic index drugs?.
Answer:
,1. Warfarin sodium (Coumadin): monitor INR
2. Digoxin (lanoxin): monitor digoxin level, EKG,
electrolytes(potassium, magnesium, calcium)
3. Theophylline: monitor blood levels
4. Carbamazepime (Tegretol) and Phenytoin (Dilantin): Monitor blood
levels
5. Levothyroxine: Monitor TSH
6. Lithium: Monitor blood levels, TSH (risk of hypothyroidism)
Question:
Otitis Externa tx.
Answer:
Fluoroquinolone & Polymyxin B cortisporin drops
Question:
An elderly male patient complains of a new-onset, left-sided temporal headache accompanied by
scalp tenderness and indurated temporal artery. The NP suspects temporal arteritis. What screening
test would you order to assist with diagnosis?.
Answer:
sedimentation rate (expect to be very elevated)
Question:
Basal Cell Carcinoma.
Answer:
Pearly domed nodule with overlaying telangiectatic vessels. Could be plaque, papule, possible
central ulceration and crusting. Dx: Biopsy Tx:
Question:
Normal, healthy woman of reproductive age.
Answer:
white, clear, flocculent(physiologic leukorrhea), no complaints, pH 3.8-4.2 (toward acidic), no
odor, microscopic shows lactobacilli (gram+bacteria)
, Question:
Multiple infections from bacteria and fungus?.
Answer:
Screen for HIV
Question:
Screening Tests.
Answer:
- sensitivity: detect those WITH the disease. higher the
sensitivity is higher the false positives
- Specificty: detect those who DONT have the disease.
Question:
erythromycin for chlamydia eye infection in infants.
Answer:
...
Question:
to assess pts ability to think abstractly a nurse pract could ask the patient.
Answer:
the meaning of a common proverb
Question:
The most commonly prescribed medication for mild systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is:
1.
azathioprine (AZA).
2.
belimumab (Benlysta).
3.
ibuprofen (Advil).
