NUR 643E ADVANCED HEALTH ASSESSMENT FINAL
EXAM COMPLETE 250 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY
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What is pyrosis? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Heartburn
What type of disease is IBS, generally? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Functional
45 y/o female presents to your office complaining of achey, burning epigastric
pain, especially after she eats. Your cardiac workup is negative. What is high on
your differential? What lifestyle modifications do you suggest? - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔ - GERD
Stay sitting up after eating
Wait a few hours after eating to go to sleep
Avoid spicy foods, chocolate, caffeine, acidic foods, etc
Your patient comes in with loss of appetite for the last few weeks. What chronic
medical disease do you want to keep on your differential? - CORRECT ANSWER
✔✔ - Malignancy
Proton pump inhibitors can increase the risk of what infectious disease? -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - C. dif
Pg. 1
,When you are working up a patient with a chief complaint of nausea what do you
want to ask them? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Pregnant?
When nauseous?
Have you taken anything?
Vomiting?
Relationship to food?
Bowel changes?
Taking medications?
PMS?
What does projectile vomiting in an adult make you think? - CORRECT ANSWER
✔✔ - Increased intracranial pressure
You are seeing a patient in your office and he tells you he has been having long,
skinny stools. What are you worried about? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Intestinal
obstruction
Malignancy?
What does fatty stool indicate? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Malabsorption
What do clay colored stools indicate? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Hepatobiliary
obstruction
What common medications can cause constipation? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - 5-
HT3 receptor antagonists (Ondansetron); Antacids; Anticholinergics;
Pg. 2
,Antidepressants; Antihistamines; Anticonvulsants; CCB; Clonidine; Calcium
supplements; Diuretics; Iron supplements; Levodopa; Narcotics; NSAIDs;
Psychotropics; Sympathomimetics
What are you worried about in older, younger, and immunocompromised
patients with diarrhea? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Dehydration --> electrolyte
imbalances
What is dysuria? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Painful or difficult urination
What do you want to warn your patient of before starting him on a laxative? -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Can develop a dependency due to decreased intestinal
tone
Your patient tells you he has been having dark tarry stools. What medication do
you want to ask about? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Iron supplement
What is familial mediterranean fever? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Inherited
condition characterized by recurrent episodes of painful inflammation in the
abdomen, chest, or joints
When you are prepping your patient for an abdominal exam what do you want to
tell them to do? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Empty their bladder
When you are performing an abdominal exam where do you want to stand in
relation to your patient? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - On the patient's right side
Pg. 3
, What are the nine regions of the abdomen? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Right
hypochondriac, epigastric, left hypochondriac, right lumbar, umbilical, left
lumbar, right inguinal, hypogastric, left inguinal
What hypothetical lines divide up the nine regions of the abdomen? - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔ - Two horizontal lines - across edge of costal margin and edge of
iliac crest
Two vertical lines - run bilaterally form midclavicular lines to middle of Poupart
ligament (inguinal ligament)
Which kidney is lower and why? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - The right kidney is
lower in the abdominal cavity because of the amount of space the liver occupies.
You are performing an abdominal exam as part of a well visit. What are you
inspecting for? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Contour of abdomen + peristalsis
Skin - scars, color, rashes, lesions, striae, dilated veins
Umbilicus
Asymmetries, masses, hernias
Aortic pulsations
Pg. 4
EXAM COMPLETE 250 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY
GRADED A+||BRAND NEW!!
What is pyrosis? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Heartburn
What type of disease is IBS, generally? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Functional
45 y/o female presents to your office complaining of achey, burning epigastric
pain, especially after she eats. Your cardiac workup is negative. What is high on
your differential? What lifestyle modifications do you suggest? - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔ - GERD
Stay sitting up after eating
Wait a few hours after eating to go to sleep
Avoid spicy foods, chocolate, caffeine, acidic foods, etc
Your patient comes in with loss of appetite for the last few weeks. What chronic
medical disease do you want to keep on your differential? - CORRECT ANSWER
✔✔ - Malignancy
Proton pump inhibitors can increase the risk of what infectious disease? -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - C. dif
Pg. 1
,When you are working up a patient with a chief complaint of nausea what do you
want to ask them? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Pregnant?
When nauseous?
Have you taken anything?
Vomiting?
Relationship to food?
Bowel changes?
Taking medications?
PMS?
What does projectile vomiting in an adult make you think? - CORRECT ANSWER
✔✔ - Increased intracranial pressure
You are seeing a patient in your office and he tells you he has been having long,
skinny stools. What are you worried about? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Intestinal
obstruction
Malignancy?
What does fatty stool indicate? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Malabsorption
What do clay colored stools indicate? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Hepatobiliary
obstruction
What common medications can cause constipation? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - 5-
HT3 receptor antagonists (Ondansetron); Antacids; Anticholinergics;
Pg. 2
,Antidepressants; Antihistamines; Anticonvulsants; CCB; Clonidine; Calcium
supplements; Diuretics; Iron supplements; Levodopa; Narcotics; NSAIDs;
Psychotropics; Sympathomimetics
What are you worried about in older, younger, and immunocompromised
patients with diarrhea? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Dehydration --> electrolyte
imbalances
What is dysuria? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Painful or difficult urination
What do you want to warn your patient of before starting him on a laxative? -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Can develop a dependency due to decreased intestinal
tone
Your patient tells you he has been having dark tarry stools. What medication do
you want to ask about? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Iron supplement
What is familial mediterranean fever? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Inherited
condition characterized by recurrent episodes of painful inflammation in the
abdomen, chest, or joints
When you are prepping your patient for an abdominal exam what do you want to
tell them to do? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Empty their bladder
When you are performing an abdominal exam where do you want to stand in
relation to your patient? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - On the patient's right side
Pg. 3
, What are the nine regions of the abdomen? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Right
hypochondriac, epigastric, left hypochondriac, right lumbar, umbilical, left
lumbar, right inguinal, hypogastric, left inguinal
What hypothetical lines divide up the nine regions of the abdomen? - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔ - Two horizontal lines - across edge of costal margin and edge of
iliac crest
Two vertical lines - run bilaterally form midclavicular lines to middle of Poupart
ligament (inguinal ligament)
Which kidney is lower and why? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - The right kidney is
lower in the abdominal cavity because of the amount of space the liver occupies.
You are performing an abdominal exam as part of a well visit. What are you
inspecting for? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ - Contour of abdomen + peristalsis
Skin - scars, color, rashes, lesions, striae, dilated veins
Umbilicus
Asymmetries, masses, hernias
Aortic pulsations
Pg. 4
