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NR 509 week 6 Questions and Answers with
Verified Solutions 2025 | 2026
A woman has come to the clinic to seek help with a substance-
abuse problem. She admits to using cocaine just before arrival.
Which of these assessment findings would the FNP expect to
find when examining the woman? - ANSWER ANS: Dilated
pupils, pacing, psychomotor agitation
A cocaine user's appearance includes pupillary dilation,
tachycardia or bradycardia, elevated or lowered blood pressure,
sweating, chills, nausea, vomiting, and weight loss. The person's
behavior includes euphoria, talkativeness, hypervigilance,
pacing, psychomotor agitation, impaired social or occupational
functioning, fighting, grandiosity, and visual or tactile
hallucinations.
A 63-year-old Chinese American man enters the office with
complaints of chest pain, shortness of breath, and palpitations.
Which statement most accurately reflect the FNPs best course
of action?
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A) The nurse should focus on performing a full cardiac
assessment.
B) The nurse should focus on psychosomatic complaints
because he has just learned that his wife has cancer.
C) This patient is not in any danger at present, so the nurse
should send him home with instructions to contact his
physician.
D) It is unclear what is happening with this patient, so the nurse
should perform an assessment in both the physical and the
psychosocial realms. - ANSWER D) It is unclear what is
happening with this patient, so the nurse should perform an
assessment in both the physical and the psychosocial realms.
The FNP is planning to assess new memory with the patient.
The best way for the FNP to do this would be
a. Administer the FACT test.
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b. Ask him to describe his first job.
c. Give him the Four Unrelated Words Test.
d. Ask him to describe what television show he was watching
before coming to the clinic. - ANSWER ANS: Give him the Four
Unrelated Words Test.
Ask questions that can be corroborated, which screens for the
occasional person who confabulates or makes up answers to fill
in the gaps of memory loss. The Four Unrelated Words Test
tests the persons ability to lay down new memories and is a
highly sensitive and valid memory test.
During the health history the FNP asks a female patient "how
many alcoholic drinks do you have a week?" Which answer by
the patient would indicate at risk drinking? - ANSWER ANS: "No
amount of alcohol has been determined to be safe during
pregnancy."
NR 509 week 6 Questions and Answers with
Verified Solutions 2025 | 2026
A woman has come to the clinic to seek help with a substance-
abuse problem. She admits to using cocaine just before arrival.
Which of these assessment findings would the FNP expect to
find when examining the woman? - ANSWER ANS: Dilated
pupils, pacing, psychomotor agitation
A cocaine user's appearance includes pupillary dilation,
tachycardia or bradycardia, elevated or lowered blood pressure,
sweating, chills, nausea, vomiting, and weight loss. The person's
behavior includes euphoria, talkativeness, hypervigilance,
pacing, psychomotor agitation, impaired social or occupational
functioning, fighting, grandiosity, and visual or tactile
hallucinations.
A 63-year-old Chinese American man enters the office with
complaints of chest pain, shortness of breath, and palpitations.
Which statement most accurately reflect the FNPs best course
of action?
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A) The nurse should focus on performing a full cardiac
assessment.
B) The nurse should focus on psychosomatic complaints
because he has just learned that his wife has cancer.
C) This patient is not in any danger at present, so the nurse
should send him home with instructions to contact his
physician.
D) It is unclear what is happening with this patient, so the nurse
should perform an assessment in both the physical and the
psychosocial realms. - ANSWER D) It is unclear what is
happening with this patient, so the nurse should perform an
assessment in both the physical and the psychosocial realms.
The FNP is planning to assess new memory with the patient.
The best way for the FNP to do this would be
a. Administer the FACT test.
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b. Ask him to describe his first job.
c. Give him the Four Unrelated Words Test.
d. Ask him to describe what television show he was watching
before coming to the clinic. - ANSWER ANS: Give him the Four
Unrelated Words Test.
Ask questions that can be corroborated, which screens for the
occasional person who confabulates or makes up answers to fill
in the gaps of memory loss. The Four Unrelated Words Test
tests the persons ability to lay down new memories and is a
highly sensitive and valid memory test.
During the health history the FNP asks a female patient "how
many alcoholic drinks do you have a week?" Which answer by
the patient would indicate at risk drinking? - ANSWER ANS: "No
amount of alcohol has been determined to be safe during
pregnancy."
