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A school-age child has had nasal discharge and daytime cough but no fever for 12 days without improvement in symptoms. The child has not had antibiotics recently and there is no significant antibiotic resistance in the local community. What is the appropriate treatment for this child? Amoxicillin 45 mg/kg/day Correct Amoxicillin 80-90 mg/kg/day Amoxicillin-clavulanate 80-90 mg/kg/day Saline irrigation for symptomatic relief

A child is diagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia and will be treated as an outpatient. Which antibiotic will the primary care pediatric nurse practitioner prescribe? Amoxicillin Correct Azithromycin Ceftriaxone Oseltamivir

Let’s assume that we want to measure the effect of education, job training, and job types on wage as follows: Wage variable: a wage. Education variable: the number of years for education. Train variable: a binary job training variable (1: training experience 0: no training experience). Job variable: contains six possible answers (worker, technical, service, office, sales, management). We assumed that the base group for the job variable is worker (i.e., 0) and convert the job variable as multiple binary dummy variables as follows: Technical variable (1: job type is technical, otherwise 0) Service variable (1: job type is service, otherwise 0) Office variable (1: job type is office, otherwise 0) Sale variable (1: job type is sale, otherwise 0) Management variable (1: job type is management, otherwise 0)

A 55-year-old man presents with a history of obesity, ongoing weight gain, and type II diabetes presents to the office with an elevated hemoglobin A1C. The NP would consider prescribing a treatment which would do which of the following? 

The primary care pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP) is performing a well child examination on a school-age child who had complete repair of a tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) defect in infancy. What is important in this child’s health maintenance regime? Cardiology clearance for sports participation Correct Restriction of physical activity to avoid pulmonary complications Sub-acute bacterial endocarditis prophylaxis precautions Teaching about management of hypercyanotic episodes

A school age child is in the clinic because of symptoms of purulent, foul-smelling nasal discharge from the right nostril. Nasal visualization reveals something shiny in a mass of mucous in the nasal cavity. What will the primary care pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP) do? Attempt to remove the mass gently using alligator forceps. Correct Perform a saline nasal rinse using a water jet device. Refer the child to a pediatric otolaryngologist. Suction the mucoid mass using a bulb syringe.

A term neonate with birth weight above the 90th percentile is jittery and has hypoglycemia. What endocrine disorder could explain these findings?

Extra Credit: Up to 2 points.List up to two organs that only receive innervation from one branch of the autonomic nervous system.

The primary care pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP) is examining a 2-year-old infant and auscultates a wide fixed split S. What condition may this finding represent? Atrial septal defect (ASD) Correct Coarctation of the aorta (COA) Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) Ventricular septal defect (VSD)

There is a sample linear regression as follows: