Gerald is a 75 year retired postal worker who is generally healthy but presents today with progressive symptoms of fatigue, dizziness and dyspnea after exertion.  He denies chest pain or shortness of breath but does state that his ability to walk distances has diminished.  After your examination, you hear a harsh sounding murmur with a decrescendo quality at the aortic area that radiates to his neck. Which is the best diagnostic test for analysis of this heart murmur?  

A 35-year-old recent immigrant is being seen in the clinic for complaints of a cough that is associated with rust-colored sputum, low-grade afternoon fevers, and night sweats for the past 2 months. The nurse practitioner’s preliminary analysis, based on this history, is that this patient may be suffering from:

This type of dementia is commonly seen with Vitamin B1 (Thiamine) deficiency and chronic alcohol abuse.  

What dispersion pattern is common with prey animals and fruiting plants, which often attracts predators?

Whether or not Gerontology is the area you plan to pursue after graduation, what are your two biggest takeaways from this course?

You are auscultating the heart of a healthy and active four year old girl and you discover the following: The murmur disappears after you have the child hold her breath.  You document this finding as:

Raqui is a judge in a galaxy far away, where she decides which witnesses to call and interrogates them to develop facts about her assigned cases.  Once she has gathered enough information about a case, she must decide based on precedent. What kind of legal system is Raqui part of?

You are a student in the vascular surgery clinic. You are asked to perform a physical examination on a patient with known peripheral vascular disease in the legs. Which of the following aspects is important to note when you perform your examination of his lower extremities?

Morphine 6 mg IM stat How many mL of morphine would the patient receive? Drug available:  _________ mL Round to the nearest mL 

A client prescribed entacapone (Comtan), a catechol O-methyltransferase inhibitor (COMT), reports to the nurse, “I notice my urine is yellow-orange in color.  Should I be concerned?”  Which is the most appropriate statement by the nurse.