NR 451 Week 6 Assignment Questions and answers
EXAM, SOLUTIONS (MULTIPLE CHOICES) 100%
correct 2025!!
A woman has come to the clinic to seek help with a substance-abuse problem.
She admits to using cocaine just before arrival. Which of these assessment
findings would the FNP expect to find when examining the woman? -
(ANSWER)ANS: Dilated pupils, pacing, psychomotor agitation
A cocaine user's appearance includes pupillary dilation, tachycardia or
bradycardia, elevated or lowered blood pressure, sweating, chills, nausea,
vomiting, and weight loss. The person's behavior includes euphoria, talkativeness,
hypervigilance, pacing, psychomotor agitation, impaired social or occupational
functioning, fighting, grandiosity, and visual or tactile hallucinations.
A 63-year-old Chinese American man enters the office with complaints of chest
pain, shortness of breath, and palpitations. Which statement most accurately
reflect the FNPs best course of action?
A) The nurse should focus on performing a full cardiac assessment.
B) The nurse should focus on psychosomatic complaints because he has just
learned that his wife has cancer.
C) This patient is not in any danger at present, so the nurse should send him home
with instructions to contact his physician.
, D) It is unclear what is happening with this patient, so the nurse should perform
an assessment in both the physical and the psychosocial realms. - (ANSWER)D) It
is unclear what is happening with this patient, so the nurse should perform an
assessment in both the physical and the psychosocial realms.
The FNP is planning to assess new memory with the patient. The best way for the
FNP to do this would be
a. Administer the FACT test.
b. Ask him to describe his first job.
c. Give him the Four Unrelated Words Test.
d. Ask him to describe what television show he was watching before coming to
the clinic. - (ANSWER)ANS: Give him the Four Unrelated Words Test.
Ask questions that can be corroborated, which screens for the occasional person
who confabulates or makes up answers to fill in the gaps of memory loss. The
Four Unrelated Words Test tests the persons ability to lay down new memories
and is a highly sensitive and valid memory test.
During the health history the FNP asks a female patient "how many alcoholic
drinks do you have a week?" Which answer by the patient would indicate at risk
EXAM, SOLUTIONS (MULTIPLE CHOICES) 100%
correct 2025!!
A woman has come to the clinic to seek help with a substance-abuse problem.
She admits to using cocaine just before arrival. Which of these assessment
findings would the FNP expect to find when examining the woman? -
(ANSWER)ANS: Dilated pupils, pacing, psychomotor agitation
A cocaine user's appearance includes pupillary dilation, tachycardia or
bradycardia, elevated or lowered blood pressure, sweating, chills, nausea,
vomiting, and weight loss. The person's behavior includes euphoria, talkativeness,
hypervigilance, pacing, psychomotor agitation, impaired social or occupational
functioning, fighting, grandiosity, and visual or tactile hallucinations.
A 63-year-old Chinese American man enters the office with complaints of chest
pain, shortness of breath, and palpitations. Which statement most accurately
reflect the FNPs best course of action?
A) The nurse should focus on performing a full cardiac assessment.
B) The nurse should focus on psychosomatic complaints because he has just
learned that his wife has cancer.
C) This patient is not in any danger at present, so the nurse should send him home
with instructions to contact his physician.
, D) It is unclear what is happening with this patient, so the nurse should perform
an assessment in both the physical and the psychosocial realms. - (ANSWER)D) It
is unclear what is happening with this patient, so the nurse should perform an
assessment in both the physical and the psychosocial realms.
The FNP is planning to assess new memory with the patient. The best way for the
FNP to do this would be
a. Administer the FACT test.
b. Ask him to describe his first job.
c. Give him the Four Unrelated Words Test.
d. Ask him to describe what television show he was watching before coming to
the clinic. - (ANSWER)ANS: Give him the Four Unrelated Words Test.
Ask questions that can be corroborated, which screens for the occasional person
who confabulates or makes up answers to fill in the gaps of memory loss. The
Four Unrelated Words Test tests the persons ability to lay down new memories
and is a highly sensitive and valid memory test.
During the health history the FNP asks a female patient "how many alcoholic
drinks do you have a week?" Which answer by the patient would indicate at risk
