PNCB PNP PC 2026 EVALUATION EXAMS
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What oral rehydration would you recommend for moderate dehydration? -
✔✔50mL/hr
Regular diet gradually increased
Do NOT use anti-mobility drugs, these can prolong illness
✔✔When can you consider antibiotic therapy for a child with diarrhea? - ✔✔8-10+
stools a day
First recommendation: Bactrim, or if suspect giardia, use metronidazole
✔✔What would you consider for an infant age 1 month with sudden projectile non-
bilious vomiting. The infant appears hungry after vomiting and has a palpable pyloric
olive and peristaltic waves after vomiting. Abdominal ultrasound may show "string-sign"
- ✔✔Pyloric stenosis
✔✔What condition do you suspect for an infant who presents with:
Acute colicky pain
Vomiting
Sausage-shaped mass in RUQ
Distended tummy
, Currant jelly stool - ✔✔Intususception
✔✔What condition do you suspect for an infant with:
Failure to pass meconium in 24-48 hours
Bilious vomiting
Explosive bowel movements
Abdominal distension - ✔✔Hirschsprung's Disease
✔✔What condition do you expect for a child with:
- Vague colicky pain that shifts to RLQ
+ Rebound tenderness
+ McBurney's Point
- Elevated WBC - ✔✔Appendicitis
Ultrasound or CT = diagnostic
✔✔What condition do you suspect for a child with:
- Failure to thrive
- Bulky, foul stool
- Severe chronic diarrhea - ✔✔Malabsorption
✔✔How are Hep A, B, and C spread? - ✔✔A: oral-fecal, raw shellfish
B: blood-borne, body fluids
C: Blood transfusion, IV drug use
✔✔Classify the 3 levels of burns - ✔✔First Degree: DRY
Second Degree: MOIST
Third Degree: WAXY/LEATHERY
✔✔Treatment for tinea capitus - ✔✔Griseofulvin 20mg/kg/day for 6 weeks
✔✔Treatment for tinea corporis - ✔✔Topical antifungals (miconazole, ketoconazole)
✔✔Treatment for tinea cruris (jock itch) - ✔✔Topical antifungal or terbinafine cream
✔✔Treatment for tinea pedis - ✔✔Topical antifungals, oral griseofulvin if severe
✔✔Treatment for tinea versicolor - ✔✔Selenium sulfide shampoo
✔✔What treatments can you offer for varicella? - ✔✔Oral acyclovir IF given in the first
24 hours
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What oral rehydration would you recommend for moderate dehydration? -
✔✔50mL/hr
Regular diet gradually increased
Do NOT use anti-mobility drugs, these can prolong illness
✔✔When can you consider antibiotic therapy for a child with diarrhea? - ✔✔8-10+
stools a day
First recommendation: Bactrim, or if suspect giardia, use metronidazole
✔✔What would you consider for an infant age 1 month with sudden projectile non-
bilious vomiting. The infant appears hungry after vomiting and has a palpable pyloric
olive and peristaltic waves after vomiting. Abdominal ultrasound may show "string-sign"
- ✔✔Pyloric stenosis
✔✔What condition do you suspect for an infant who presents with:
Acute colicky pain
Vomiting
Sausage-shaped mass in RUQ
Distended tummy
, Currant jelly stool - ✔✔Intususception
✔✔What condition do you suspect for an infant with:
Failure to pass meconium in 24-48 hours
Bilious vomiting
Explosive bowel movements
Abdominal distension - ✔✔Hirschsprung's Disease
✔✔What condition do you expect for a child with:
- Vague colicky pain that shifts to RLQ
+ Rebound tenderness
+ McBurney's Point
- Elevated WBC - ✔✔Appendicitis
Ultrasound or CT = diagnostic
✔✔What condition do you suspect for a child with:
- Failure to thrive
- Bulky, foul stool
- Severe chronic diarrhea - ✔✔Malabsorption
✔✔How are Hep A, B, and C spread? - ✔✔A: oral-fecal, raw shellfish
B: blood-borne, body fluids
C: Blood transfusion, IV drug use
✔✔Classify the 3 levels of burns - ✔✔First Degree: DRY
Second Degree: MOIST
Third Degree: WAXY/LEATHERY
✔✔Treatment for tinea capitus - ✔✔Griseofulvin 20mg/kg/day for 6 weeks
✔✔Treatment for tinea corporis - ✔✔Topical antifungals (miconazole, ketoconazole)
✔✔Treatment for tinea cruris (jock itch) - ✔✔Topical antifungal or terbinafine cream
✔✔Treatment for tinea pedis - ✔✔Topical antifungals, oral griseofulvin if severe
✔✔Treatment for tinea versicolor - ✔✔Selenium sulfide shampoo
✔✔What treatments can you offer for varicella? - ✔✔Oral acyclovir IF given in the first
24 hours
