NU 664 Exam 1 Questions with 100% Correct Answers | Latest Version (2025/2026) Expert Verified
NU 664 Exam 1 Questions with 100% Correct Answers | Latest Version (2025/2026) Expert Verified Gold standard for CAP diagnosis: - Chest x-ray If CAP symptoms present but no obvious signs of infection on CXR treatment is... - Same as if CXR was positive Immunizations for people over 65 or younger people with comorbidities such as asthma, CHF COPD: - Pneumonia and flu vaccines Who is at risk for CAP? - Extremes of age, smokers, alcoholics, GERD, chronic disease, institutionalization CAP presentation in adults: - Cough (may be nonproductive), dyspnea, fever, hemoptysis, chest pain, fatigue, tachycardia If lymphocytes are elevated? - Indicative of viral process If monocytes are elevated? - Indicative of chronic processIf eosinophils are elevated? - Indicative of asthma, allergic reaction If basophils are elevated? - Indicative of chronic process If neutrophils are elevated? - Indicative of acute bacterial process CAP: patient present with symptoms of chills, fever, chest pain, productive cough with purulent sputum, positive chest x-ray, and patient had URI last week? - Streptococcus pneumonia: gram + In the United States, the most common cause of myocarditis in children is: - Viruses Your next patient is a 5-year-old child with a history of moderate persistent asthma. He has been wheezing and coughing for the past two days, and his mother brings him in today for evaluation. He has been using albuterol every four hours. His respiratory rate is 13breaths per minute; his lungs are clear to auscultation; and no retractions are noted. What may be your assessment and intervention based on this information? - Your child is breathing slower than normal for his age. We need to send him to the ER for further intervention. Your next patient is a 6-year-old male here for his annual i
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