You are using the CURB-65 clinical prediction tool to decide whether Latisha, whom you have diagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), should be hospitalized or treated at home. Which of the following risk factors would increase Latisha’s chance of CAP-associated mortality and complications?

Cydney presents with a history of asthma. She has symptoms of cough/SOB which does not wake her up at night and does not interfere with regular activities. Her FEV1 is greater than 80% predicted and she uses her budesonide-formoterol (Symbicort) inhaler approximately 2 times a week.  How would you classify her asthma severity?

A three-year-old presents with persistent bilateral rhinorrhea, Dennie-Morgan lines, and his nasal turbinates are pale and boggy appearing.  The nurse practitioner recommends:

The nurse practitioner ordered a lipid panel in a patient that was not fasting.  Which of the following results would alert the nurse practitioner should repeat the test while fasting?

A patient who is taking a lipid soluble statin drug (such as atorvastatin) to treat dyslipidemia has begun an intensive diet and exercise program. The patient reports new onset of muscle pain several weeks after beginning therapy. The nurse practitioner trials the patient off of the statin medication and the patient’s symptoms resolve. What is a reasonable next step? 

A patient with a tender, erythematous nodule on the margin of the eyelid can most likely be diagnosed with a:

Please keep your scrap paper.After you have submitted this Canvas assessment:(1)  Visit the Canvas link below this assignment in the MidTerm 1 module. (2) You will have 15 minutes to submit the requested images of your scrap work. (3) Be sure to upload work for all specified questions in order to receive full credit on this assessment. Points will be deducted for not submitting your written work.   Mark “True” below to show you understand the above instructions.

Simplify. Assume that all variables represent positive real numbers. + 7  + 2 

Which of the following drugs reverses benzodiazepines?

Patients that are experiencing tachycardia should receive atropine.