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Urinary incontinence that occurs from the inability to hold urine when the stimulus to urinate is perceived is called _____ incontinence.

How would you describe the following flow-volume loops from a pulmonary function test?                  A                                                              B                                              C

A  patient is being seen in the clinic for severe exacerbation of his heart failure. Which of these findings is the nurse most likely to observe in this patient?

A 42 year old female presents to your office for evaluation of shortness of breath. She has had a fever as high as 103 F for the last 3 days and has a cough productive of green sputum. On physical exam, you hear crackles in her lungs. A chest radiograph reveals a consolidation in the left lower lobe. You diagnose her with a lobar pneumonia.  When you perform tactile fremitus of the left lower thorax, you would expect fremitus to be:

The term claudication refers to

Contraction of the ventricles causes

A third heart sound is created by

In differentiating between an occluded artery or vein, a differentiating sign (present in venous but not arterial occlusion) is

Upon inspection of the throat, you have the patient stick out their tongue, which cranial nerve are you checking? 

During the otoscopic exam of an adult you should: