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A 70 year-old man presents to your office complaining of left upper arm and shoulder pain immediately after falling off his back porch. He reports braking his fall by catching the railing with his left arm. He has noticed pain and weakness with movement, especially with abduction of the shoulder. What is the most likely diagnosis?

When assessing the complaint of shoulder pain and/or injury. Which of the following is an important part of the physical examination?

When evaluating an injury to a joint, what is very important to your HPI?

What is one area you did not see on the test that you studied for? Create a question and four answers (indicating the correct answer) on that topic in the space below.

You have a female patient with an uncomplicated acute cystitis. She has no medication allergies. She has no risk factors for infection with multi-drug resistant gram negative organisms and is not sexually active. Her pregnancy test is negative. Which of the following antibiotics treatment regimes would be a reasonable initial treatment choice? (Select all that apply):  

You have a 23 year old female patient presenting with a three day h/o dysuria, urgency and frequency. On physical exam, she is afebrile, and you note positive suprapubic tenderness but no CVAT. Her urine pregnancy test is negative. On clean catch midstream urine dip you note: Positive blood (micro) without gross hematuria Positive leukocyte esterase Negative nitrites The  next step for the reasonably prudent FNP would be:

Which of the following statements about CTS (Carpal Tunnel Syndrome) is true?  

The anterior ribs are more visible and run more horizontally than the posterior ribs when evaluating a PA chest x-ray? T/F

When treating a female patient empirically with antibiotics for uncomplicated UTI, which of the following bacteria is the most frequent cause (largest target of treatment)?

You should Always get an x-ray of the ankle when a patient presents for an ankle sprain.