Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Exam Prep - Question List

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101.

You are reviewing a chart for a new primary care patient.  The chart notes she constantly struggles with issues related to the female athlete triad.  What interrelated conditions would you be likely to see?

  1. Disordered eating, hair loss and extreme weight loss
  2. Disordered eating, amenorrhea and osteoporosis
  3. Amenorrhea, osteoporosis and extreme weight loss
  4. ACL, MCL, and cartilage damage
  5. Rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis and amenorrhea
102.

Your PCP client recently had an organ transplant. What is a common side effect of immunosuppressive drug therapy used in organ transplantation?

  1. Sodium and fluid diuresis
  2. Hyperphosphatemia
  3. Hyperkalemia
  4. Decreased vitamin C requirements
  5. None of the above
103.

Your diabetic client has the flu.  She asks why she should drink juices, check her finger stick glucose every 4 hours, and take insulin when she is not eating and is vomiting. Which of the following would be the best explanation by the nurse practitioner?

  1. She needs to prevent dehydration, excessive breakdown of fats for glucose, and monitor for hyperglycemia.
  2. She needs to check his blood glucose because vomiting could cause hypoglycemia and drinking fluids will prevent dehydration.
  3. She body uses protein for energy when he is sick, causing increased ketones and hypoglycemia.
  4. If she could substitute water for the juices to prevent dehydration, then he would not need to check his blood glucose levels so often
  5. None of the above are true
104.

Which of these muscles flexes and externally rotates the hips, and may be a cause of lower back in pain in a patient?

  1. Psoas major
  2. Quadratus lumborum
  3. Flexor digitalis
  4. Vastus medialis
  5. Gluteus maximus
105.

A mother asks the nurse practioneer how she can perform a breast self-examination if breastfeeding her baby. The nurse’s best response is which of the following?

  1. “Set an appointment with your physician to examine your breast.”
  2. “The BSE for non-nursing and nursing mothers are just the same.”
  3. “You can examine each breast after the baby has emptied your breasts.”
  4. “You can start checking your breast once your menstrual period begins.”

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