1. Question: A patient has been complaining of palpitations for the past week and presents to you at an urgent care clinic for evaluation. You perform a 12 lead EKG and identify atrial fibrillation with a hear rate of 122 beats per minute. What is your next order?

2. Question: Which of the following do not represent possible causes of a prothrombotic state?

3. Question: An 80-year-old man with a history of atrial fibrillation presents with sudden-onset unilateral leg pain and pallor. What is the most likely diagnosis?

4. Question: A 65-year-old woman presents for a follow-up examination. She is a smoker, and her hypertension is now adequately controlled with medication. Her mother died at age 40 from a heart attack. The fasting lipid profile shows cholesterol = 240 mg/dL, HDL = 30, and LDL = 200. In addition to starting therapeutic lifestyle changes, the nurse practitioner should start the patient on:

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147. Question: Patients with bullous lung disease are at risk of developing all the following except which barotrauma-related complication?

148. Question: An adult presents for a 3-month follow-up visit for intermittent asthma. The patient’s current treatment plant is albuterol (Ventolin HFA) as needed. The patient reports coughing, wheezing, and chest tightness that require inhaler use 3 days a week. The patient also reports nighttime coughing about once per week in the last month. What is the nurse practitioners BEST plan of care?

149. Question: A 25-year-old woman presents with a sudden onset of shortness of breath and pleuritic chest pain. She has no significant past medical history and takes no medications. On physical examination, her heart rate is 110 beats per minute, respiratory rate is 24 breaths per minute, and oxygen saturation is 90% on room air. What is the most likely diagnosis?

150. Question: Your adult patient with asthma states she is unhappy you are unwilling to renew her prescription for her albuterol inhaler because it’s only been two weeks and it is completely used already. Which of the following statements made by the nurse practitioner best explains the rationale for this decision?