Question: When the standing wave pattern in a pipe is NANA (N stands for nodes, A for antinodes), what type of pipe is this? (It is open at one end and closed at the other end.)
Answer Options:
It is open at both ends.
It is closed at both ends.
It is open at one end and closed at the other end.
None of the above.
Answer: It is open at one end and closed at the other end.
Question: Among the frequencies listed, 33 Hz, 330 Hz, 3 300 Hz, and 33 000 Hz, which is the one that the human ear most sensitive? (3 300 Hz)
Answer Options:
33 Hz
330 Hz
3 300 Hz
33 000 Hz
Answer: 3 300 Hz
Question: Incorporating IT into a patient encounter takes skill and tact. During the encounter, the provider can make the patient more comfortable with the IT the providers using by:
Answer Options:
A. Turning the screen around so the patient can see material being recorded
B. Not placing the computer screen between the provider and the patient
C. Both A and B
Correct Answer: C. Both A and B
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Question: Nurse practitioner prescriptive authority is regulated by:
Answer Options:
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
The State Board of Nursing for each state
The State Board of Pharmacy
Correct Answer: 3. The State Board of Nursing for each state
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Question: Criteria for choosing an effective drug for a disorder include:
Answer Options:
Asking the patient what drug they think would work best for them
Consulting nationally recognized guidelines for disease management
Prescribing medications that are available as samples before writing a prescription
Following U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration guidelines for prescribing
Correct Answer: 2. Consulting nationally recognized guidelines for disease management
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Question: Pharmacoeconomics is:
Answer Options:
The study of the part of the U.S. economy devoted to drug use
The study of the impact of prescription drug costs on the overall economy
The analysis of the costs and consequences of any health-care-related treatment or service
The analysis of the clinical efficacy of the drug
Correct Answer: 3. The analysis of the costs and consequences of any health-care-related treatment or service
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Question: Prescribing less-expensive generic drugs or drugs off the $4 retail pharmacy lists:
Answer Options:
Increases the complexity of the Pharmacoeconomics of prescribing for the individual patient
Increases compliance by reducing the financial burden of drug costs to the patient
Is not sound prescribing practice due to the inferiority of the generic products
Will increase the overall cost of drugs to the system due to the ease of overprescribing less-expensive drugs
Correct Answer: 2. Increases compliance by reducing the financial burden of drug costs to the patient
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Question: NP prescribes and off label drug, np understands prescribing off label drug means?
Answer Options:
Off-label prescribing is:
Regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Illegal by NPs in all states (provinces)
Legal if there is scientific evidence for the use
Regulated by the Drug Enforcement Administration
Correct Answer: 3. Legal if there is scientific evidence for the use
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Question: Cultural factors that must be taken into account when prescribing include(s):
Answer Options:
Who the decision maker is in the family regarding health-care decisions
The patient’s view of health and illness
Attitudes regarding the use of drugs to treat illness
All of the above
Correct Answer: 4. All of the above
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Question: Amber is a 10-year-old child who comes to the clinic with a 4-day history of cough, low-grade fever, and rhinorrhea. When she blows her nose or coughs the mucous is greenish-yellow. The appropriate antibiotic to prescribe would be:
Answer Options:
Amoxicillin
Amoxicillin/clavulanate
TMP/SMZ (Septra)
None
Correct Answer: 4. None
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