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NSG 6440 WEEK 4 APEA PREDICTOR NEWEST
2025/2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED
A+||BRAND NEW VERSION!!
You are doing a cerumen extraction and touch the external meatus of
your patient's ear. He winces and starts coughing. What is the name of
this reflex?
a. Baker phenomenon
b. Arnold reflex
c. Cough reflex
d. Tragus reflex - ANSWER- b. Arnold reflex
Julie has a postnasal drip along with her cough. You assess her for:
a. Asthma. .
b. Sinusitis.
c. Allergic or vasomotor rhinitis.
d. Influenza. - ANSWER- c. Allergic or vasomotor rhinitis.
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Your patient with hypertension comes in and insists that one of his new
medications is causing him to cough. When looking at his list of
medications, you think the cough must be from:
a. Metoprolol (Toprol XL).
b. Tadalafil (Cialis).
c. Clopidogrel (Plavix).
d. Captopril (Capoten). - ANSWER- d. Captopril (Capoten).
African American patients seem to have a negative reaction to which of
the following asthma medications?
a. Inhaled corticosteroids
b. Long-term beta-agonist bronchodilators
c. Leukotriene receptor agonist
d. Oral corticosteroid - ANSWER- b. Long-term beta-agonist
bronchodilators
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Sam, age 78, presents to the clinic with respiratory symptoms. His
pulmonary function tests (PFTs) are as follows: a normal total lung
capacity, a decreased PaO2, and an increased PaCO2. On assessment,
you auscultate coarse crackles and forced expiratory wheezes. What is
your diagnosis?
a. Asthma
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b. Emphysema
c. Chronic bronchitis
d. Influenza - ANSWER- c. Chronic bronchitis
You are using the CURB-65 clinical prediction tool to decide whether
Mabel whom you have diagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia
(CAP) should be hospitalized or could be treated at home. Her score is
3. What should you do?
a. Consider home treatment.
b. Plan for a short inpatient hospitalization.
c. Closely supervise her outpatient treatment.
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d. Hospitalize and consider admitting her to the intensive care unit
(ICU). - ANSWER- d. Hospitalize and consider admitting her to the
intensive care unit (ICU).
Why do you suspect that your patient may have a decreased response
to the tuberculin skin test (TST)?
a. She is on a high-protein diet.
b. She is an adolescent.
c. She has been on long-term corticosteroid therapy.
d. She just got over a cold. - ANSWER- c. She has been on long-term
corticosteroid therapy.
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Marci has been started on a tuberculosis (TB) regimen. Because
isoniazid (INH) may cause peripheral neuropathy, you consider ordering
which of the following drugs prophylactically?
a. Pyridoxine
b. Thiamine
c. Probiotic
d. Phytonadione - ANSWER- a. Pyridoxine
NSG 6440 WEEK 4 APEA PREDICTOR NEWEST
2025/2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED
A+||BRAND NEW VERSION!!
You are doing a cerumen extraction and touch the external meatus of
your patient's ear. He winces and starts coughing. What is the name of
this reflex?
a. Baker phenomenon
b. Arnold reflex
c. Cough reflex
d. Tragus reflex - ANSWER- b. Arnold reflex
Julie has a postnasal drip along with her cough. You assess her for:
a. Asthma. .
b. Sinusitis.
c. Allergic or vasomotor rhinitis.
d. Influenza. - ANSWER- c. Allergic or vasomotor rhinitis.
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2|Page
Your patient with hypertension comes in and insists that one of his new
medications is causing him to cough. When looking at his list of
medications, you think the cough must be from:
a. Metoprolol (Toprol XL).
b. Tadalafil (Cialis).
c. Clopidogrel (Plavix).
d. Captopril (Capoten). - ANSWER- d. Captopril (Capoten).
African American patients seem to have a negative reaction to which of
the following asthma medications?
a. Inhaled corticosteroids
b. Long-term beta-agonist bronchodilators
c. Leukotriene receptor agonist
d. Oral corticosteroid - ANSWER- b. Long-term beta-agonist
bronchodilators
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Sam, age 78, presents to the clinic with respiratory symptoms. His
pulmonary function tests (PFTs) are as follows: a normal total lung
capacity, a decreased PaO2, and an increased PaCO2. On assessment,
you auscultate coarse crackles and forced expiratory wheezes. What is
your diagnosis?
a. Asthma
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b. Emphysema
c. Chronic bronchitis
d. Influenza - ANSWER- c. Chronic bronchitis
You are using the CURB-65 clinical prediction tool to decide whether
Mabel whom you have diagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia
(CAP) should be hospitalized or could be treated at home. Her score is
3. What should you do?
a. Consider home treatment.
b. Plan for a short inpatient hospitalization.
c. Closely supervise her outpatient treatment.
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d. Hospitalize and consider admitting her to the intensive care unit
(ICU). - ANSWER- d. Hospitalize and consider admitting her to the
intensive care unit (ICU).
Why do you suspect that your patient may have a decreased response
to the tuberculin skin test (TST)?
a. She is on a high-protein diet.
b. She is an adolescent.
c. She has been on long-term corticosteroid therapy.
d. She just got over a cold. - ANSWER- c. She has been on long-term
corticosteroid therapy.
4|Page
Marci has been started on a tuberculosis (TB) regimen. Because
isoniazid (INH) may cause peripheral neuropathy, you consider ordering
which of the following drugs prophylactically?
a. Pyridoxine
b. Thiamine
c. Probiotic
d. Phytonadione - ANSWER- a. Pyridoxine
