NURS 620

Risk factors for hypertension 1. age & sex- women older than 55 & men older than 45 2.Obesity 3.Excessive dietary intake of salt ette smoking ic alcohol consumption 6.Family history of high blood pressure and/or cardiovascular disease 7.African American race 8.Stress 9.Sedentary lifestyle Blood pressure goals for JNC8 Healthy patients over 60 years of age is okay if it is below 150/90 Healthy patients less than 60 years of age the blood pressure is okay if less than 140/90 P...

Four types of headaches Traction (tension), Vascular (migraine), cluster, mixed (vascular and tension), Inflammatory How do you treat migraines? 1. Avoid triggers 2. Use biofeedback 3. Use abortive therapy... medications 4. Preventative medications 00:07 01:27 What are some of the ABORTIVE migraine medications? 'Triptans' Trip the switch to abort the headache Almotriptan (Exert) Eletriptan (Relpax) Frovatriptan (Frova Sumatriptan (Imitrex) Zolmatriptan (Zomig) ...

In treating a patient with allergic conjunctivitis, the most appropriate treatment option is: a) Bacitracin-polymyxin b) Corticosteroid ophthalmic drops c) Opthalmological antihistamines d) Cromolyn ophthalmic drops c) Opthalmological antihistamines The clinician is assessing a patient complaining of hearing loss. The clinician places a tuning fork over the patient's mastoid process, and when the sound fades away, the fork is placed without restriking it over the external auditory mea...

Claudication is the classic presenting symptom associated with which of the following? arterial insufficiency Risk factors for chronic arterial insufficiency?- tobacco use You are using the CURB 65 clinical tool, for determining which patient dx with CAP should be hospitalized or treated at home. Mabel's score is 2- what should we do? Short inpatient stay; if she is relatively healthy, she could be closely supervised outpatient S/S of COPD correlate with which of the following...

if rapid strep test is negative what is the first thing you should do? send out culture when examining lab from a person with mono what would the NP expect to find? Lymphocytosis 00:22 01:27 EBV is transmitted through which route? oral pharyngeal secretions (saliva) Sx of mono usually present how many days after initially infected? 30-50 days if a pt is being treated for strep and tells you he or she has allergy to PCN what class of med to avoid beta-lactam ...

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