FNP REVIEW QUESTIONS 2025/20 26 REVISED EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS ANSWERS
DESIGNED TO REFLECT THE CURRENT EXAM AND SUPPORT YOUR
SUCCESS.
Which hypertensive patient is most likely to have adverse blood pressure effects from excessive sodium
consumption?
a. 21-year-old Asian American male
b. 35-year-old menstruating female
c. 55-year-old post menopausal female
d. 70-year-old African American male - correct answer✔✔d. 70-year-old African American male
Rationale:
Two groups of patients typically experience adverse blood pressure effects from consumption of sodium
greater than 2,000 mg daily. Those patients considered to be most sodium sensitive are elderly patients
and African American patients.
A patient with poorly controlled hypertension and history of myocardial infarction 6-years-ago presents
today with mild shortness of breath. He takes quinapril, ASA, metoprolol, and a statin daily. What
symptom in NOT indicative of a heart failure exacerbation?
a. fatigue
b. headache
c. orthopnea
d. cough - correct answer✔✔b. headache
Rationale:
Fatigue is a common symptom in cardiac patients that can represent a worsening of many cardiac
diseases such as coronary artery disease, heart failure, and valvular dysfunction. Orthopnea and cough,
especially nocturnal, are classic symptoms of heart failure.
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS ANSWERS
DESIGNED TO REFLECT THE CURRENT EXAM AND SUPPORT YOUR
SUCCESS.
Which hypertensive patient is most likely to have adverse blood pressure effects from excessive sodium
consumption?
a. 21-year-old Asian American male
b. 35-year-old menstruating female
c. 55-year-old post menopausal female
d. 70-year-old African American male - correct answer✔✔d. 70-year-old African American male
Rationale:
Two groups of patients typically experience adverse blood pressure effects from consumption of sodium
greater than 2,000 mg daily. Those patients considered to be most sodium sensitive are elderly patients
and African American patients.
A patient with poorly controlled hypertension and history of myocardial infarction 6-years-ago presents
today with mild shortness of breath. He takes quinapril, ASA, metoprolol, and a statin daily. What
symptom in NOT indicative of a heart failure exacerbation?
a. fatigue
b. headache
c. orthopnea
d. cough - correct answer✔✔b. headache
Rationale:
Fatigue is a common symptom in cardiac patients that can represent a worsening of many cardiac
diseases such as coronary artery disease, heart failure, and valvular dysfunction. Orthopnea and cough,
especially nocturnal, are classic symptoms of heart failure.
