APEA Practice Test Review
(APEA Practice Test Review)
- Question: A mother presents with a 3 year old who has croup. The plan for home care would appropriately include:
- Question: Anticipatory guidance for children 4 to 12 years-of-age should focus primarily on:
- Question: A 49-year-old male presents for a pre-employment physical examination. He is a 60-pack year smoker with chronic emphysema. Findings would most likely reveal which of the following descriptions of the thorax and lungs?
- Question: The nurse practitioner notices tooth decay on the lingual surfaces of the maxillary incisors in a 10 month old. The most likely cause is:
- Question: A 30 year old female comes into a clinic with classic signs and symptoms of appendicitis. The nurse practitioner fails to refer the patient to a surgeon. The appendix ruptures and the woman dies. This is an example of:
- Question: What is the failure of an individual to do something that a reasonable person would do that results in injury to another.
- Question: What is malpractice?
- Question: A 72 year old man has chronic prostatitis. What is the initial drug treatment of choice for this patient?
- Question: What are risk factors for cervical disease?
- Question: An 8 month old male presents with hemarthrosis of both knees and hematuria. The parents give no history of trauma, but say “he has always bruised easily.” The most likely diagnosis is:
- Question: A 21 year old college student presents to the student health center with copious, markedly purulent discharge from her left eye. The nurse practitioner should suspect:
- Question: The nurse practitioner is discussing contraception options to … used during lactation with a 24 year old pregnant patient. Which of the following methods of contraception would NOT be appropriate for use while breastfeeding?
- Question: Question A pediatric patient is … with Enterobius vermicularis (pinworms) infection. He is treated with mebendazole (Vermox®) 100 mg today, to be repeated in 2 weeks. Who else should be treated?
- Question: Which of the following is true about cognitive abilities in the elderly?
- Question: Which of the following is a “red flag” indicating possible developmental delay?
- Question: A 26 year old female patient presents with cracked and sore nipples. She is breastfeeding her first child who is 4 weeks old. The nurse practitioner would be accurate to advise the patient to:
- Question: The nurse practitioner recommends a 24-hour urine for creatinine clearance. Appropriate instructions to the patient are to:
- Question: What is characteristic of the S3 heart sound?
- Question: Expected spirometry readings when the patient has chronic emphysema include:
- Question: The mechanism by which nurses are held accountable for practice, based on the quality of nursing care in a given situation in accordance with established standards of practice, is:
- Question: Practitioners working with physically active girls need to be aware of the “female athlete triad” in order to develop an effective plan for prevention, recognition, and treatment. The components of the female athlete triad are:
- Question: Right sided heart failure is … by: