NSG 6440 PREDICTOR EXAM NEWEST
2024 ACTUAL EXAM TEST BANK 300
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+||NEWEST
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.
,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
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
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.
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.
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
, Jolene has breast cancer that has been staged as T1, N0, M0.
What might this mean?
a. The tumor size cannot be evaluated, the cancer has not
spread to the lymph nodes, and the distant spread cannot be
evaluated.
b. The cancer is in situ, it is spreading into the lymph nodes,
but the spread otherwise cannot be evaluated.
c. The cancer is less than 2 cm in size and has not spread to
the lymph nodes or other parts of the body.
d. The cancer is about 5 cm in size, nearby lymph nodes
cannot be ev - ....ANSWER...c. The cancer is less than 2 cm
in size and has not spread to the lymph nodes or other parts
of the body
Nathan, a 32-year-old policeman, has a 15-pack year history
of smoking and continues to smoke heavily. He gets irate
during every visit when you try to talk to him about quitting.
What should you do?
a. Just hand him literature about smoking cessation at every
visit.
b. Wait until he is ready to talk to you about quitting.
c. Just document in the record that he is not ready yet.
d. Continue to ask him at every visit if he is ready yet. -
....ANSWER...d. Continue to ask him at every visit if he is
ready yet.
2024 ACTUAL EXAM TEST BANK 300
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+||NEWEST
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.
,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
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
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.
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.
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
, Jolene has breast cancer that has been staged as T1, N0, M0.
What might this mean?
a. The tumor size cannot be evaluated, the cancer has not
spread to the lymph nodes, and the distant spread cannot be
evaluated.
b. The cancer is in situ, it is spreading into the lymph nodes,
but the spread otherwise cannot be evaluated.
c. The cancer is less than 2 cm in size and has not spread to
the lymph nodes or other parts of the body.
d. The cancer is about 5 cm in size, nearby lymph nodes
cannot be ev - ....ANSWER...c. The cancer is less than 2 cm
in size and has not spread to the lymph nodes or other parts
of the body
Nathan, a 32-year-old policeman, has a 15-pack year history
of smoking and continues to smoke heavily. He gets irate
during every visit when you try to talk to him about quitting.
What should you do?
a. Just hand him literature about smoking cessation at every
visit.
b. Wait until he is ready to talk to you about quitting.
c. Just document in the record that he is not ready yet.
d. Continue to ask him at every visit if he is ready yet. -
....ANSWER...d. Continue to ask him at every visit if he is
ready yet.
