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NSG 6440 PREDICTOR FINAL EXAM LATEST 2026-2027 ACTUAL
EXAM WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (100% VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+|
||PROFESSOR VERIFIED|| ||BRANDNEW!!!||
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.
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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:
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 beta-agonist
bronchodilators
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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.
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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
NSG 6440 PREDICTOR FINAL EXAM LATEST 2026-2027 ACTUAL
EXAM WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (100% VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+|
||PROFESSOR VERIFIED|| ||BRANDNEW!!!||
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.
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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:
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 beta-agonist
bronchodilators
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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.
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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
