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Exam 3: NSG500 / NSG 500 (Latest 2024 / 2025) Advanced Health Assessment Review | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Wilkes Q: What is the best way to assess for joint effusion? Answer: Palpate; it will be feel soft an spongy (that's the fluid in the joint you are feeling) Q: Osteoarthritis; What is the tinel test? Answer: -tapping on ulnar side and indicates if medial nerve is involved Q: What is the phalen test? Answer: An exam that assess for carpal tunnel syndrome. -I...

Exam 2: NSG533 / NSG 533 (Latest 2024 / 2025 Update) Advanced Pharmacology Exam Review | Complete Guide with Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct - Wilkes Q: How does Tramadol work? Answer: It is a centrally acting synthetic opioid with weak SSRI/SNRI activity. Q: What are the daily dose limits for Tramadol? Answer: Maximum of 200mg per day. Q: What are the potential interactions of Tramadol? Answer: Increased risk of seizures with TCAs and other SSRIs, risk for serotonin syndrome. Q: W...

Exam 2: NSG500 / NSG 500 (Latest 2024 / 2025) Advanced Health Assessment Complete Review | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Wilkes Q: How to differentiate between crackles and rhonchi? Answer: o Auscultate the lungs before and after the patient coughs. o Rhonchi can clear with coughing because they represent secretions in larger airways. Q: What is bronchophony? What does it indicate? Answer: Clarity and loudness of spoken sounds, extreme in presence of consolidation of ...

Exam 1: NSG533 / NSG 533 (Latest 2024 / 2025 Update) Advanced Pharmacology Exam| Questions and Verified Answers with Rationales | 100% Correct | Grade A - Wilkes Q: In order to determine how much T4 replacement a patient needs to re-establish a euthyroid state, the NP considers: 1. the TSH value 2. the patient's T4 3. the patient's body weight 4. the patient's gender Answer: 3. the patient's body weight Replacement is based on body weight and is usually calculated in kg. The patients weight ...

Nsg 552 Wilkes University EXAM 2 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS Acute anxiety - ANSWER First line for acute panic may be short term benzo use. short acting benzos cause rebound anxiety and are the most abused Benzodiazepines - ANSWER Withdrawal can be dangerous, even deadly. Stopping abruptly is not advised. Symptoms of agitation, tension, irritability, and sz. may occur anxiety disorders - ANSWER psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive beh...

Exam 3: NSG550 / NSG 550 (Latest 2024 / 2025 Update) Diagnostic Reasoning for Nurse Practitioners Review | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Wilkes Q: Acetylcholine receptor antibody test Answer: Used to diagnose acquired myasthenia gravis and monitor pt response to immunosuppressive therapy. MG is an autoimmune disease caused by antibodies that block or destroy receptors for Ach. MG s/s=muscle weakness and fatigue Q: Cholinesterase Answer: Identify patients with PChE def...

Exam 2: NSG550 / NSG 550 (Latest 2024 / 2025 Update) Diagnostic Reasoning for Nurse Practitioners Review | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Wilkes Q: A comprehensive test used to diagnose sleep disorders that records your brain waves, the oxygen level in your blood, heart rate, and breathing, as well as eye and leg movements during the study. Answer: Polysomnography Q: Indications for polysomnography Answer: -Sleep apnea -Periodic limb movement disorder sometimes associa...

Exam 1: NSG552 / NSG 552 (Latest 2024 / 2025) Psychopharmacology Exam | Grade A Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct - Wilkes Q: Involuntary teeth grinding associated with antipsychotics: Answer: bruxism Q: Safest and best tolerated anticonvulsant for patients taking clozapine who experience dose related seizures: Answer: topiramate Q: Less incidence of antiadrenergic, anticholinergic and antihistaminic side effects but greater E.P.S.: Answer: high potency Q: Greater incidence of antiad...

Exam 3: NSG533 / NSG 533 (Latest 2024 / 2024 Update) Advanced Pharmacology Exam Review | Guide with Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct - Wilkes Q: Short-acting muscarinic antagonist (SAMA) Answer: Ipratropium Q: avoid co administration of ICS with which CYP3A4 inhibitors? (may cause cushing's) Answer: ritonavir, itraconazole, ketoconazole Q: lack of response to ICS may be indicative of what? Answer: CLCCl1 gene Q: LABAs Answer: Salmeterol Formoterol Vilanterol Q: LAMAs Answer: tiotro...

Exam 1: NSG533 / NSG 533 (Latest 2024 / 2025) Advanced Pharmacology Complete Review | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Wilkes Q: Histamine-2 Receptor Antagonists (cimetidine, famotidine, nizatidine, ranitidine) Answer: Decrease acid secretion by blocking histamine receptors in gastric parietal cells Relief from typical acute GERD symptoms and prophylactic More effective than antacids for chronic GERD but less effective than PPIs May be dosed intermittently or on schedule...