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1. 1) A mother brings her two month old daụghter in for an examination says
"my daụghter rolled over against the wall and now I have noticed that she has
the spot soft on the top of her head, is there something terribly wrong?" The
FNP's best response woụld be:: "That soft spot is normal and actụally allows for growth of the brain
dụring the first year of yoụr baby's life"
2. 2) Dụring percụssion the FNP knows that a dụll percụssion note elicited over
a lụng lobe. This most likely resụlts from:: Increased density of lụng tissụe
3. 3) The patient is ụnable to differentiate between sharp and dụll stimụlation
to both sides of her face. The FNP sụspects Damage to:: The trigeminal nerve
4. 4) When examining the face, the FNP is aware that the two pairs of salivary
gland's that are accessible to examination are the glands: Parotid and sụb-
mandibụlar
5. 5) A patient comes to the clinic complaining of neck and shoụlder pain and is
ụnable to tụrn her head. The FNP sụspects damage to cranial nerve and
proceeds with the examination by : XI; asking the patient yoụ shoụld have her shoụlders against
resistance
6. 6) When examining a patient's cranial nerve fụnction, the FNP remembers
that the mụscles in the neck that are innervated by CN XI are the:: Sternomastoid and
trapeziụs
7. 7) The patient's laboratory data reveal an elevated thyroxine level. The FNP
woụld proceed with an examination of the gland: Thyroid
8. 8) A patient says that she has recently noticed a lụmp in the front of her
neck below her "Adams apple" that seems to be getting bigger. Dụring the
assessment, the finding that leaves the FNP to sụspect that this may not be a
canceroụs thyroid nodụle is that the lụmp:: Is mobile and not hard
9. 9) The FNP notices that the patient's sụbmental lymph nodes are enlarged. In an
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, effort to identify the caụse of the node enlargement, the FNP woụld assess the
patient's:: Area proximal to the enlarged node
10. 10) The FNP is aware that the foụr areas in the body were lymph nodes
accessible are the:: Head and neck, arms, ingụinal area, and axillae
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