NURS 623 LATEST 2026 CORE EXAM TIP QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Testing for gout? - ✔✔Serum uric acid, aspiration of sodium urate crystals from the
joint.
✔✔S/Sx of gout? - ✔✔pain, tenderness and swelling in monoarticular joint
✔✔How does radioactive iodine affect the thyroid gland? - ✔✔Destroys the gland for life
✔✔Goal of A1C for non diabetics? - ✔✔4-5.6%
✔✔Goal of A1C for diabetics? - ✔✔6-8%
✔✔S/Sx of Graves? - ✔✔bulging eyes, thin fine hair, tachycardia
✔✔S/Sx of Cushings? - ✔✔Moon face, buffalo hump, hyperglycemia
✔✔Cushings is an excess of what? - ✔✔Cortisol
✔✔S/Sx of Addisons? - ✔✔bronze skin, hypotension, hypoglycemia,hyponatremia
✔✔Addisons is not enough what? - ✔✔Cortisol
✔✔S/Sx of Hashimotos? - ✔✔course hair, fatigue, lethargy, brittle nails
✔✔What is myxedema? - ✔✔endocrine emergency, severe hypothyroidism, poor short
term memory, depression, dementia
✔✔What constitutes a diagnosis of DM2? - ✔✔A1C > 6.5, OGTT >200, Random
plasma glucose >200 on 2 separate occasions, fasting plasma glucose >126 on two
seperate occasions
✔✔How to treat acute gout attack? - ✔✔NSAIDs, fluids, may add colchicine if needed
✔✔Who to maintain gout? - ✔✔after acute phase is over, may add allopurinol for
maintenance
✔✔What to avoid with gout? - ✔✔food high in purine, beer/liquor, red meat, organ meat,
seafood, high sugar products
✔✔S/Sx of hypoglycemia? - ✔✔sweaty palms, dizziness, rapid pulse, confusion
✔✔S/Sx of hyperglycemia? - ✔✔increased thirst, headache, fatigue, frequent urination
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Testing for gout? - ✔✔Serum uric acid, aspiration of sodium urate crystals from the
joint.
✔✔S/Sx of gout? - ✔✔pain, tenderness and swelling in monoarticular joint
✔✔How does radioactive iodine affect the thyroid gland? - ✔✔Destroys the gland for life
✔✔Goal of A1C for non diabetics? - ✔✔4-5.6%
✔✔Goal of A1C for diabetics? - ✔✔6-8%
✔✔S/Sx of Graves? - ✔✔bulging eyes, thin fine hair, tachycardia
✔✔S/Sx of Cushings? - ✔✔Moon face, buffalo hump, hyperglycemia
✔✔Cushings is an excess of what? - ✔✔Cortisol
✔✔S/Sx of Addisons? - ✔✔bronze skin, hypotension, hypoglycemia,hyponatremia
✔✔Addisons is not enough what? - ✔✔Cortisol
✔✔S/Sx of Hashimotos? - ✔✔course hair, fatigue, lethargy, brittle nails
✔✔What is myxedema? - ✔✔endocrine emergency, severe hypothyroidism, poor short
term memory, depression, dementia
✔✔What constitutes a diagnosis of DM2? - ✔✔A1C > 6.5, OGTT >200, Random
plasma glucose >200 on 2 separate occasions, fasting plasma glucose >126 on two
seperate occasions
✔✔How to treat acute gout attack? - ✔✔NSAIDs, fluids, may add colchicine if needed
✔✔Who to maintain gout? - ✔✔after acute phase is over, may add allopurinol for
maintenance
✔✔What to avoid with gout? - ✔✔food high in purine, beer/liquor, red meat, organ meat,
seafood, high sugar products
✔✔S/Sx of hypoglycemia? - ✔✔sweaty palms, dizziness, rapid pulse, confusion
✔✔S/Sx of hyperglycemia? - ✔✔increased thirst, headache, fatigue, frequent urination
