Questions and Solutions (2026) | Updated
Question Bank | Grade A+
• CAGE acronym -✓✓1. Have you ever felt you needed to Cut down on your
drinking?
2. Have people Annoyed you by criticizing your drinking?
3. Have you ever felt Guilty about drinking?
4. Have you ever felt you needed a drink first thing in the morning (Eye-opener) to
steady your nerves or to get rid of a hangover?
• Treatment for chronic alcoholism? -✓✓Patient has to express help needed to quit
drinking is critical. The patient should be given a list of options for treatment
including AA and pharmacotherapy.
• Frail elderly mammogram breast tissue? -✓✓?
• Patient has Barrett's esophagus, insurance no longer covers gastroenterologist
who was treating condition, patient at the FNP office, wanting a prescription for
medication... What should the FNP do? -✓✓a. Refer to oncologist?
b. Refill prescription?
• GERD treatment? -✓✓a. PPI? Per American College of Gastroenterology,
treatment should begin with a PPI.
b. H2? An H2 is inferior to PPI's.
• 3 months on Symmetrel, TSH increased, T4 normal, what do you do? -✓✓a.
Increase medication?
, b. Decrease medication?
• Lipid level of 1500, increased risk for? -✓✓a. pancreatitis?
• Frail elder, increased creatinine, indication? -✓✓Renal falure
• Fingernail hematoma treatment? -✓✓a. drill hole and drain blood?
• Abnormal cells on PAP, what do you do next? -✓✓a. Refer for colposcopy?
• Red beefy tongue? -✓✓a. Pernicious Anemia?
b. Iron Deficiency?
c. Folate Deficiency?
• Low Hemoglobin, Low Hematocrit, High MCV - Indicates what? -✓✓Anemia
• Koplick Spots? -✓✓a. Measles?
• Signs and Symptoms of Roseola? -✓✓Is the sixth diseases. Roseola is a mild
viral illness of childhood. It is characterized by high fever that typically comes on
suddenly and lasts for three to five days. Other symptoms of roseola are mild nasal
congestion, eye redness, and a rash that appears after the fever has resolved.
• Pregnant teacher, with exposure to Fifths' Disease - what risk is there for the
fetus? -✓✓Fetal death.