APEA 3P EXAM PREP4 HEALTH PROMOTION 2024 UPDATED AND VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH GUARANTEED A+

APEA 3P EXAM PREP4 HEALTH PROMOTION 2024 UPDATED AND VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH GUARANTEED A+ What should the nurse practitioner recommend to any elder taking medications? Have someone check your medications prior to taking them Never take your medicine on an empty stomach Keep a list of all of your medications with you. Have a pharmacist review your list once a year A list of current medications should be kept with each patient and carried with him, especially when healthcare visits are scheduled. Many older adults can take medications without supervision. Many medications should be taken without food (thyroid supplementation for example). A pharmacist can evaluate the list of medications for drug-drug interactions, but the pharmacist will not know the diagnoses and other reasons for choosing the medications. What temperature should be set on a water heater in the home of an older adult to prevent burn injury? Less than 110 degrees Less than 120 degrees Less than 130 degrees Less than 140 degrees Hot water heaters are common sources of burns in homes of older adults and very young patients. Many safety organizations in the United States believe that burns can be prevented if hot water heaters are set to less than 120° F. A patient who has been treated for hypothyroidism presents for her annual exam. Her TSH is 4.1 (normal = 0.4- 3.8). She feels well. How should she be managed? Continue her current dosage of thyroid replacement. Increase her replacement. Decrease her replacement. Repeat the TSH in 2-3 weeks. When an abnormal TSH is received, especially when a patient is not symptomatic, it should be repeated. Sometimes there are periods of transient hypothyroidism, lab error, and missed doses that can cause changes in TSH levels. A 20-year-old student has an MMR titer that demonstrates an unprotective titer for rubella. She is HIV positive. Her CD4 cell count is unknown. Which statement is true? She should not receive the MMR immunization because she is at low risk for the disease. MMR is safe to give but she does not need this. She is at risk for MMR but should not be immunized. She should receive this. The immunization is not alive. This patient is at risk for rubella because she does not have a sufficient titer. The MMR immunization is an attenuated virus. Though an attenuated immunization is weakened, it is still considered live and so is contraindicated in anyone who may be immunocompromised. Since her CD4 cell count is unknown, she should not receive this immunization yet. She may be able to receive this immunization if her CD4 count is normal.