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FITZ Exit Exam | 2026 Edition | Verified Questions and
100% Correct Answers ||Verified Exam!!!| A+ Graded
Nurse Practitioner Board Review||Newest Exam!!!
ACEI/ARB use poses a ________ risk, especially with
reduced GFR, overdiuresis and/or under hydration. -
Answer-hyperkalemia
Assessment of the optic disc is a component of the
evaluation of which cranial nerve? - Answer-Cranial Nerve
II
The cardiac exam features in _________ include the
presence of a holosystolic murmur with a blowing quality
that is typically Gr II-III/VI with a predictable pattern of
radiation to the left axilla - Answer-Mitral regurgitation
What is the most common heart chamber hypertrophy? -
Answer-Left ventricular hypertrophy
What is the second most common heart chamber
hypertrophy? - Answer-Left atrial hypertrophy
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What is the most common stenotic heart valve? - Answer-
Aortic stenosis
What type of prevention focuses on preventing the health
problem? Examples: immunizations, counseling about
safety, injury, and disease prevention - Answer-Primary
prevention
What type of prevention focuses on detecting disease in
early, asymptomatic, or preclinical state to minimize
impact?
Examples: screening tests, such as BO check,
mammography, colonoscopy - Answer-Secondary
prevention
What type of prevention focuses on minimizing negative
disease-induced outcomes?
Examples: In established disease, adjusting therapy to
avoid further target organ damage. Potentially viewed as a
failure of primary prevention - Answer-Tertiary prevention
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What anemias are classified as normocytic, normochromic
with low HGB, Hematocrit and RBC's? - Answer-Acute
blood loss
Anemia of chronic disease (CKD, Lupus, chronic
inflammatory diseases, gastritis, menorrhagia, etc)
What are the most common etiology of microcytic (MCV
<80 fL) hypochromic anemia with elevated RDW in
primary care? Small cells are seen in this type of anemia
due to insufficient hemoglobin. All values decreased: HGB,
HCT, RBC, MCV, MCHC ***RDW is increased***
Next test is ferritin for iron stores, add lead testing in
younger children - Answer-- Iron deficiency
- Plumbism (lead toxicity)
What type of anemia
decreased: HGB, HCT, MCV, MCHC
elevated RBC's
Normal RDW?
(Microcytic, hypochromic with elevated RBC's and normal
RDW) - Answer-- Alpha or Beta thalassemia minor
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** at risk ethnic groups for alpha thalassemia minor: Asian,
African ancestry (AAA - Alpha, Asian, African)
*** at risk ethnic groups for beta thalassemia minor:
African, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern ancestry (BAMME
- Beta, African, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern)
- CONSIDERED A GENETIC Variation, not a disease
- Next test would be a hemoglobin electrophoresis for
evaluation of hemoglobin variants
What type of anemia has Macrocytic (MCV >96 fL),
normochromic anemia, with elevated RDW?
Decreased: HGB, Hematocrit, RBC's
Elevated: MCV, RDW
Normal: MCHC
**Next test - serum vitamin B12 and RBC folate - Answer--
Vitamin B12 deficiency, especially pernicious anemia
- Folate deficiency
What is most common anemia?
Seen commonly in women of childbearing age, pregnancy,
and childhood - Answer-Iron deficiency anemia
FITZ Exit Exam | 2026 Edition | Verified Questions and
100% Correct Answers ||Verified Exam!!!| A+ Graded
Nurse Practitioner Board Review||Newest Exam!!!
ACEI/ARB use poses a ________ risk, especially with
reduced GFR, overdiuresis and/or under hydration. -
Answer-hyperkalemia
Assessment of the optic disc is a component of the
evaluation of which cranial nerve? - Answer-Cranial Nerve
II
The cardiac exam features in _________ include the
presence of a holosystolic murmur with a blowing quality
that is typically Gr II-III/VI with a predictable pattern of
radiation to the left axilla - Answer-Mitral regurgitation
What is the most common heart chamber hypertrophy? -
Answer-Left ventricular hypertrophy
What is the second most common heart chamber
hypertrophy? - Answer-Left atrial hypertrophy
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What is the most common stenotic heart valve? - Answer-
Aortic stenosis
What type of prevention focuses on preventing the health
problem? Examples: immunizations, counseling about
safety, injury, and disease prevention - Answer-Primary
prevention
What type of prevention focuses on detecting disease in
early, asymptomatic, or preclinical state to minimize
impact?
Examples: screening tests, such as BO check,
mammography, colonoscopy - Answer-Secondary
prevention
What type of prevention focuses on minimizing negative
disease-induced outcomes?
Examples: In established disease, adjusting therapy to
avoid further target organ damage. Potentially viewed as a
failure of primary prevention - Answer-Tertiary prevention
,3|Page
What anemias are classified as normocytic, normochromic
with low HGB, Hematocrit and RBC's? - Answer-Acute
blood loss
Anemia of chronic disease (CKD, Lupus, chronic
inflammatory diseases, gastritis, menorrhagia, etc)
What are the most common etiology of microcytic (MCV
<80 fL) hypochromic anemia with elevated RDW in
primary care? Small cells are seen in this type of anemia
due to insufficient hemoglobin. All values decreased: HGB,
HCT, RBC, MCV, MCHC ***RDW is increased***
Next test is ferritin for iron stores, add lead testing in
younger children - Answer-- Iron deficiency
- Plumbism (lead toxicity)
What type of anemia
decreased: HGB, HCT, MCV, MCHC
elevated RBC's
Normal RDW?
(Microcytic, hypochromic with elevated RBC's and normal
RDW) - Answer-- Alpha or Beta thalassemia minor
, 4|Page
** at risk ethnic groups for alpha thalassemia minor: Asian,
African ancestry (AAA - Alpha, Asian, African)
*** at risk ethnic groups for beta thalassemia minor:
African, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern ancestry (BAMME
- Beta, African, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern)
- CONSIDERED A GENETIC Variation, not a disease
- Next test would be a hemoglobin electrophoresis for
evaluation of hemoglobin variants
What type of anemia has Macrocytic (MCV >96 fL),
normochromic anemia, with elevated RDW?
Decreased: HGB, Hematocrit, RBC's
Elevated: MCV, RDW
Normal: MCHC
**Next test - serum vitamin B12 and RBC folate - Answer--
Vitamin B12 deficiency, especially pernicious anemia
- Folate deficiency
What is most common anemia?
Seen commonly in women of childbearing age, pregnancy,
and childhood - Answer-Iron deficiency anemia
