AANP Test 2 for Boards

The fastest relief of anxiety symptoms will occur with a benzodiazepine. The other choices list agents that will require multiple doses for results. With daily continued use of benzodiazepines, the anti-anxiety effect may become diminished. A geriatric patient with cardiovascular disease is in the office being counseled on lifestyle changes. The ANP knows that which of the following is the most important to include in this discussion? "Control your hypertension, stop smoking, maintain a normal weight, and exercise regularly." "Have a yearly physical examination, increase fiber in your diet, and exercise regularly." "Maintain a normal level of serum blood sugar and decrease cholesterol intake." "Decrease smoking, increase vitamin supplements, and increase protein intake."

You are seeing a female with inflammatory bowel disease, known as IBD. The Adult Nurse Practitioner knows that if she orders a hemogram on this patient, which of the following results would be seen if the patient was anemic? microcytic, hypochromic type macrocytic, normochromic type normocytic, normochromic type macrocytic, hypochromic type

Anemia is a common problem in IBD. The etiology is often from multiple causes. The anemia of chronic disease, a normocytic, normochromic anemia, is a result of inflammation of the IBD without blood loss. Blood loss would result in a microcytic, hypochromic anemia. The macrocytic anemias are a result of deficiency in vitamin B12 or other causes. Which of the following is the least likely risk factor for suicide?

A 28-year-old female patient is in the office and is to undergo radioactive iodine treatment for Graves disease. The ANP is counseling her and understands that the mechanism of action of this treatment therapy is: alter the thyroid metabolic rate relieve distress caused by increased thyroid size destroy the overactive thyroid tissue reduce production of TSH