NSG 6440 PREDICTOR EXAM NEWEST 2024 ACTUAL EXAM TEST BANK 300 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+||NEWEST VERSION!

NSG 6440 PREDICTOR EXAM NEWEST
2024 ACTUAL EXAM TEST BANK 300
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
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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?
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 betaagonist 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.
Your patient has decided to give Chantix a try to quit
smoking. You are discussing his quit date, and he will begin
taking the medicine tomorrow. When should he plan to quit
smoking?
a. He should stop smoking today.
b. He should stop smoking tomorrow.
c. His quit date should be in 1 week.
d. He will be ready to quit after the first 30 days. -
....ANSWER...c. His quit date should be in 1 week.
Which information should be included when you are
teaching your patient about the use of nicotine gum?
a. The gum must be correctly chewed to a softened state and
then placed in the buccal mucosa.
b. Patients should not eat for 30 minutes prior to or during
the use of the gum.
c. Initially, one piece is chewed every 30 minutes while
awake.
d. Acidic foods and beverages should be encouraged during
the nicotine therapy. - ....ANSWER...a. The gum must be
correctly chewed to a softened state and then placed in the
buccal mucosa.
Your patient states he has a strep throat infection. Which of
the following symptoms makes you consider a viral etiology
instead?
a. Fever
b. Headache
c. Exudative pharyngitis
d. Rhinorrhea - ....ANSWER...d. Rhinorrhea
What is the first-line recommended treatment against Group
A B -hemolytic streptococci (GABHS), the most common
cause of bacterial pharyngitis?
a. Penicillin
b. Quinolone
c. Cephalosporin
d. Macrolide - ....ANSWER...a. Penicillin
Cydney presents with a history of asthma. She has not been
treated for a while. She complains of daily symptoms but
not continual, greater than 1 week and at nighttime. She has
been using her rescue inhaler. Her FEV1 is 60% to 80%
predicted. How would you classify her asthma severity?
a. Mild intermittent
b. Mild persistent
c. Moderate persistent
d. Severe persistent - ....ANSWER...c. Moderate persistent
Joyce is taking a long-acting beta agonist for her asthma.
What additional medication should she be taking?
a. Inhaled corticosteroid
b. Leukotriene receptor antagonist
c. Systemic corticosteroid
d. Methyl xanthenes - ....ANSWER...a. Inhaled
corticosteroid