NSG 6440 PREDICTOR EXAM NEWEST ACTUAL

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NSG 6440 PREDICTOR EXAM NEWEST ACTUAL

EXAM TEST BANK 300 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT

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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?

• Baker phenomenon
• Arnold reflex
• Cough reflex
• Tragus reflex - ANSWER- b. Arnold reflex

Julie has a postnasal drip along with her cough. You assess her for:

• Asthma. .
• Sinusitis.
• Allergic or vasomotor rhinitis.
• Influenza. - ANSWER- c. Allergic or vasomotor rhinitis.
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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:

• Metoprolol (Toprol XL).
• Tadalafil (Cialis).
• Clopidogrel (Plavix).
• Captopril (Capoten). - ANSWER- d. Captopril (Capoten).

African American patients seem to have a negative reaction to which of the following asthma medications?

• Inhaled corticosteroids
• Long-term beta-agonist bronchodilators
• Leukotriene receptor agonist
• 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?

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• Emphysema
• Chronic bronchitis
• 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?

• Consider home treatment.
• Plan for a short inpatient hospitalization.
• Closely supervise her outpatient treatment.
• 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)?

• She is on a high-protein diet.
• She is an adolescent.
• She has been on long-term corticosteroid therapy.
• She just got over a cold. - ANSWER- c. She has been on long-term

corticosteroid therapy.

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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?

• Pyridoxine
• Thiamine
• Probiotic
• Phytonadione - ANSWER- a. Pyridoxine

Jolene has breast cancer that has been staged as T1, N0, M0. What might this mean?

• The tumor size cannot be evaluated, the cancer has not spread to the

lymph nodes, and the distant spread cannot be evaluated.

• The cancer is in situ, it is spreading into the lymph nodes, but the

spread otherwise cannot be evaluated.

• The cancer is less than 2 cm in size and has not spread to the lymph

nodes or other parts of the body.

• 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

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