AANP FNP Certification Exam Study Guide
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QUESTIONS
Awake state with abnormal motor, sensory, autonomic or psychic behavior
Movement can affect any part of body
Localized or generalized
Onset 3-15 years
- Ans - Simple partial or focal seizure (Jacksonian)
up to 24 hours
- Ans - How long can a TIA last
1. Ischemic stroke
2. Cerebral hemorrhage
3. Subarachnoid hemorrhage
(in younger adults, 5% of all strokes are d/t carotid artery dissection) –
Ans - Most common forms of stroke, in order
CT or MR angiography
- Ans - imaging for stenosis or occlusion in brain-supplying vessels in stroke
,Inflammation of medium- to large-sized vessels, iwth sections of normal artery in between.
• Typical patients are elderly (mean = 70yrs), female (2-3:1) and white
• Head pain (usu. unilateral), jaw claudication, scalp tenderness, impaired vision, fever and
fatigue
• Physical exam may reveal decreased vision and scalp tenderness over affected artery.
Pulseless vessel, can be tender or nodular
OLDER patients: Often atypical presentation with respiratory tract sx or mental status change,
rather than classic HA, jaw, vision changes.
• ESR typically >80mm/h; CRP typically >2.4
• Definitive diagnosis is temporal artery biopsy
• Tx: prednisone 60-100mg PO qday
- Ans - Giant Cell Arteritis (Temporal Arteritis)
Net-like cluster
- Ans - reticular
ulcerative form of impetigo
- Ans - ecthyma
H. influenzae
- Ans - Bacteria most commonly associated with burn wound infection
topical silver sulfadiazine
- Ans - Burn wound infection ppx
IgE mediated.
2 types: atopic and anaphylactic
,- Ans - Type 1 hypersensitivity
hyphae in nail scrapings on KOH slide
- Ans - confirm onychomycosis
drug use alternating with abstinent periods
- Ans - pulse tx for onychomycosis
elderly and patients with Parkinsons
- Ans - In which patient demographic is seborrheic dermatitis often found?
malignant melanoma
- Ans - Which type of skin cancer is least affected by sunscreen wearing?
Recommended for skin tumors w/aggressive histologic patterns or invasive features
thin layers of malignant tissue are removed, and each is examined under a microscope to check
for adequate extent of the resection
- Ans - Mohs micrographic surgery
1, 2, 4
- Ans - HPV strains associated with cutaneous nongenital warts
Cellulitis - Strep pyogenes or Staph. aureus - flat border
Erysipelas - Strep. pyogenes - sharply demarcated and raised edges
- Ans - Cellulitis vs. Erysipelas?
, Created by MRSA (Methicillin-Resistant Stapphylococcus aureaus) which can kill leukocytes and
cause severe necrotizing skin infection and hemorrhagic PNA
- Ans - Panton-Valentine Leukocidin
There is often a dark or black center, which appears to people to be a bite
- Ans - Why are CA-MRSA infections often attributed to spiders?
erythema chronicum migrans, flu-like symptoms.
Resolve in 3-4 weeks w/o tx
- Ans - Stage 1 Lyme Disease
Several months after 1st stage.
cardiac defects (heart block), Bells Palsy
Classic rash reappears with multiple lesions + flu-like sx
- Ans - stage 2 lyme disease
chronic monoarthritis and migratory polyarthritis
neuropsychiatric sx w/ memory loss, depression or neuropathy
- Ans - Stage 3 Lyme disease
1. erythematotelangiectatic: central flushing w/burn + sting.
2. Papulopustular: central flushing w/papules + pustules. Usu. middle aged women
3. Phymatous: marked skin thickenings + nodularities, esp on nose
4. Ocular: blepharitis, conjunctivities, lid inflammation, telangiectasias
- Ans - 4 subtypes of rosacea
adenovirus
ACCURATE TESTED VERSIONS OF THE
EXAM FROM 2023TO 2024 | ACCURATE
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS | NEXT GEN
FORMAT | GUARANTEED PASS WITH 150+
QUESTIONS
Awake state with abnormal motor, sensory, autonomic or psychic behavior
Movement can affect any part of body
Localized or generalized
Onset 3-15 years
- Ans - Simple partial or focal seizure (Jacksonian)
up to 24 hours
- Ans - How long can a TIA last
1. Ischemic stroke
2. Cerebral hemorrhage
3. Subarachnoid hemorrhage
(in younger adults, 5% of all strokes are d/t carotid artery dissection) –
Ans - Most common forms of stroke, in order
CT or MR angiography
- Ans - imaging for stenosis or occlusion in brain-supplying vessels in stroke
,Inflammation of medium- to large-sized vessels, iwth sections of normal artery in between.
• Typical patients are elderly (mean = 70yrs), female (2-3:1) and white
• Head pain (usu. unilateral), jaw claudication, scalp tenderness, impaired vision, fever and
fatigue
• Physical exam may reveal decreased vision and scalp tenderness over affected artery.
Pulseless vessel, can be tender or nodular
OLDER patients: Often atypical presentation with respiratory tract sx or mental status change,
rather than classic HA, jaw, vision changes.
• ESR typically >80mm/h; CRP typically >2.4
• Definitive diagnosis is temporal artery biopsy
• Tx: prednisone 60-100mg PO qday
- Ans - Giant Cell Arteritis (Temporal Arteritis)
Net-like cluster
- Ans - reticular
ulcerative form of impetigo
- Ans - ecthyma
H. influenzae
- Ans - Bacteria most commonly associated with burn wound infection
topical silver sulfadiazine
- Ans - Burn wound infection ppx
IgE mediated.
2 types: atopic and anaphylactic
,- Ans - Type 1 hypersensitivity
hyphae in nail scrapings on KOH slide
- Ans - confirm onychomycosis
drug use alternating with abstinent periods
- Ans - pulse tx for onychomycosis
elderly and patients with Parkinsons
- Ans - In which patient demographic is seborrheic dermatitis often found?
malignant melanoma
- Ans - Which type of skin cancer is least affected by sunscreen wearing?
Recommended for skin tumors w/aggressive histologic patterns or invasive features
thin layers of malignant tissue are removed, and each is examined under a microscope to check
for adequate extent of the resection
- Ans - Mohs micrographic surgery
1, 2, 4
- Ans - HPV strains associated with cutaneous nongenital warts
Cellulitis - Strep pyogenes or Staph. aureus - flat border
Erysipelas - Strep. pyogenes - sharply demarcated and raised edges
- Ans - Cellulitis vs. Erysipelas?
, Created by MRSA (Methicillin-Resistant Stapphylococcus aureaus) which can kill leukocytes and
cause severe necrotizing skin infection and hemorrhagic PNA
- Ans - Panton-Valentine Leukocidin
There is often a dark or black center, which appears to people to be a bite
- Ans - Why are CA-MRSA infections often attributed to spiders?
erythema chronicum migrans, flu-like symptoms.
Resolve in 3-4 weeks w/o tx
- Ans - Stage 1 Lyme Disease
Several months after 1st stage.
cardiac defects (heart block), Bells Palsy
Classic rash reappears with multiple lesions + flu-like sx
- Ans - stage 2 lyme disease
chronic monoarthritis and migratory polyarthritis
neuropsychiatric sx w/ memory loss, depression or neuropathy
- Ans - Stage 3 Lyme disease
1. erythematotelangiectatic: central flushing w/burn + sting.
2. Papulopustular: central flushing w/papules + pustules. Usu. middle aged women
3. Phymatous: marked skin thickenings + nodularities, esp on nose
4. Ocular: blepharitis, conjunctivities, lid inflammation, telangiectasias
- Ans - 4 subtypes of rosacea
adenovirus
