NURS 6531 / NURS6531 MIDTERM EXAM STUDY GUIDE. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

A 16 year old male presents with mild sore throat, fever, fatigue, posterior cervical adenopathy, and palatine petechiae. Without a definitive diagnosis for this patient, what drug would be least appropriate to prescribe? A 58 year old complains of tightness in his chest while cutting firewood. It disappears quickly if he stops chopping. He denies shortness of breath, his total cholesterol level is less than 200 mg/dL, and he is a non-smoker. What is the most appropriate action for the nurse practitioner to take with this patient? A patient has experienced nausea and vomiting, headache, malaise, low grade fever, abdominal cramps, and watery diarrhea for 72 hours. His white count is elevated with a shift to the left. He is requesting medication for diarrhea. What is the most appropriate response? The differential diagnosis for a patient complaining of a sore throat includes which of the following? Before initiating an HMG CoA-reductase inhibitor for hyperlipidemia, the nurse practitioner orders liver function studies. The patient's aminotransferase (ALT) is elevated. What laboratory test(s) should be ordered? Acute rheumatic fever is an inflammatory disease which can follow infection with: A patient complains of "an aggravating cough for the past 6 weeks." There is no physiological cause for the cough. Which medication is most likely causing the cough?