2026 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM STUDY
GUIDE FULL SOLVED QUESTIONS
⩥ S/S Addisons Disease. Answer: Down, down, down, up, down
Hyponatremia, hypotension, low blood volume, hyperkalemia,
hypoglycemia
⩥ S/S Cushings Disease. Answer: Up, up, up, down, up
Hypernatremia, hypertension, increased blood volume, hypokalemia,
hyperglycemia
⩥ If there is no urine output
No Pee. Answer: Do not give Potassium
No K
⩥ For perfusion = EleVate. Answer: Veins
⩥ For perfusion = DAngle. Answer: Arteries
⩥ TRANSMISSION-BASED PRECAUTIONS
**AIRBORNE**. Answer: MY = measles
,CHICKEN = chicken pox/varicella
HEZ = herpez zoster/shingles
TB
⩥ TRANSMISSION-BASED PRECAUTIONS
DROPLET. Answer: SPIDERMAN
S = sepsis, scarlett fever, streptococcal pharyngitis
P = parvovirus B19, PNA, pertussis (whooping cough)
I = Influezna
D = diptheria (pharyngeal)
E = epiglottitis
R = rubella
M =meningitis, mumps
AN = Adenovirus (private room or cohort mark)
⩥ USE CONTACT PRECAUTIONS WITH....... Answer: MRS. WEE
M = multidrug resistant organisms
R = respiratory infection
S = skin infection
W = wound infection
E = enteric infection - c-diff
E = eye infeciton - conjunctivitis
, ⩥ TYPES OF SKIN INFECTIONS. Answer: VCHIPS
V - varicella zoster
C - cutaneous diphtheria
H - herpez simpex
I - impetigo
P - pediculosis
S - scabies
⩥ APGAR. Answer: A = appearance ( color all pink, pink and blue, blue
(pale))
P = pulse (>100, <100, absent)
G = grimace ( cough, grimace, no response)
A = activity (flexed, flaccid, limp)
R = respirations (strong cry, weak cry, absent)
⩥ S/S Air/Pulmonary Embolism - and tx. Answer: Chest pain, difficulty
breathing, tachycardia, pale/cyanotic, sense of impending doom.
TX: turn pt to LEFT side and lower head of bead
⩥ S/S Woman in labor w/un-reassuring FHR - and tx. Answer: late
decels, decreased variability, fetal bradycardia, etc
TX: turn on LEFT side and give O2, stop Pitocin, and increase IV fluids