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The advanced practice nurse is performing a breast examination. A technique that is helpful when a patient’s breasts are large and pendulous is to have the patient

An astute APRN (advanced practice registered nurse) knows that sensitive and careful inquiry are necessary when discussing anxiety with a patient in order to mitigate the stigma surrounding treatment for mental health.  Which of the following phrases should the APRN use with the patient to reduce feelings of stigma?

To detect diastasis recti, the APP should have the patient perform which of these maneuvers?

A normal finding that the APRN may see in a postmenopausal woman is:

The advanced practice nurse is conducting a newborn exam and suspects the child has Down syndrome (trisomy 21). Which of the following physical characteristics should increase the advanced practice nurse’s suspicions?

A recently divorced mother brings her 10 year old daughter in to the clinic for an examination of the scalp and hair. She states that the child has developed some places where there are irregularly shaped patches on her scalp with no hair, no scaling, and she is worried that this could be some form of premature baldness as this came on suddenly. The advanced practice nurse tells her that it is:

During pregnancy the irregular brownish patches around the forehead, cheeks, nose, and jaw are known as:

A 52-year-old woman has a papule on her nose that has rounded, pearly borders and a central red ulcer. She said she first noticed it several months ago and that it has slowly grown larger. The advance practice nurse suspects which condition?

Name the test in which the provider presses on the scapula with one hand to prevent scapular motion, while raising the patient’s arm straight up with the other hand, while compressing the greater tuberosity of the humerus against the acromion.  

The difference between acute and chronic pain is