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1. Question: As the nurse practitioner on call on at a long term care facility, a nurse calls you to notify you that your patient who was in normal sinus rhythm has started to have extra premature beats noted on bedside telemetry. The nurse states these extra beats occur approximately every 6 normal beats and has an inverted p wave located after the narrow QRS complex which appears otherwise identical to the normal sinus rhythm QRS complex. What is this nurse likely describing?

2. Question: A 60-year-old man with a history of hypertension and diabetes presents with a new-onset headache and visual disturbances. His blood pressure is 200/110 mmHg. What is the most appropriate management?

3. Question: You are the nurse practitioner caring for the patient with a diagnosis of premature atrial contractions. Initial treatment should include which priority intervention?

4. Question:Your patient has been diagnosed with a 4.5cm ascending aortic aneurysm. Which medical imaging is considered standard of care for serial surveillance?

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150 questions and correct answers 

146. Question: Patients who have a diagnosis of morbid central obesity would most likely have which of the following findings on a pulmonary function test?

147. Question: Anticholinergic agents such as ipratropium (Atrovent) and tiotropium (Spiriva) are used in COPD primarily to:

148. Question: The following are side effects of albuterol use except which of the following?

149. Question: Which of the following reflects a reversible cause of pulmonary disease?

150. Question: A geriatric female presents with 48 hours of regional burning pain on the right side of the ribs. The nurse practitioner starts drug treatment with: