NURS 6550 Week 6 Midterm Exam Review Week 1 – 6 Newest Version 2025

NURS 6550 Week 6 Midterm Exam Review
Week 1 – 6 Newest Version 2025


NURS 6550 Week 6 Midterm Exam Review
Week 1 – 6 Newest Version 2025
Medicolegal Considerations and the Role of the Advanced Practice Nurse
 Coding and billing in nursing practice
o ICD-10, CPT, and E&M codes
 Role of the acute care nurse practitioner
o populations, limitations, common practice settings
 Certification exam content areas
 Informed consent
 HIPPA and patient confidentiality
 Radiology – appropriate orders and interpreting reports
 Evaluation, differential diagnosis, diagnostic studies, and treatment options for common
symptoms
o Cough
o Dyspnea
o Hemoptysis
o Chest pain
o Palpitations
o Lower extremity edema
o Fever and hyperthermia
o Involuntary weight loss
o Fatigue
o Acute headache
o Dysuria
 Assessment of the older adult
 Evaluation, differential diagnosis, and treatment of geriatric disorders
o Dementia
 Types, differentiating different types, treatment
o Delirium (how to differentiate between dementia and delirium)
 Common causes, assessment, treatment
o Urinary incontinence
o Skin pressure injuries
 Care of patients at the end of life
o Symptom treatment / pain control
o Decision making

, NURS 6550 Week 6 Midterm Exam Review
Week 1 – 6 Newest Version 2025

o DNR orders
 Pain Management
o Differentiate types of pain (acute, chronic, cancer)
o Classes of medications to treat pain (opioids, NSAIDS, adjuvant)
o Side effects and adverse effects of the medications
 Medications that treat neuropathic pain
o complications




Psychosocial Health Conditions

 Evaluation, differential diagnosis, and treatment of psychiatric disorders (review
medication indications of treatment and medication complications)
o Trauma and stress related trauma disorders
o Anxiety disorders / panic attack
 treatment
o Somatic symptom disorders
o Chronic pain
o Personality disorders
o Bipolar disorder
 Long term treatment, monitoring, complications
o Schizophrenia
o Depression and mania (Initial treatment and common side effects to monitor for)
o Substance use disorders


Conditions of the Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat
 Evaluation, differential diagnosis, and treatment of eye, ENT disorders
o Conjunctivitis
 Differentiate between viral, bacterial, gonococcal
o Infectious keratitis
o Glaucoma
 Acute vs chronic
 Diagnosis – use tonometry
 treatment
o Cataract
o Retinal detachment