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Your patient is 20 weeks pregnant. She is complaining of sharp pain in her lower abdomen with movement and position change that has developed in the past 2-4 weeks. Your patient denies spotting, cramping, contractions, dysuria, dyspareunia. On exam, the fetal movement is detactable and fetal heartbeat is strong and steady, between 144 and 150. What should you tell your patient?

The advanced practice nurse is listening to the breath sounds of a patient with severe asthma. Adventitious sounds in severe asthma…

Your patient is 8 months pregnant. How do you instruct your medical assistant to position the patient in preparation for a physical exam?

A 70-year-old patient is being seen in the clinic for severe exacerbation of their heart failure. Which of these findings is the APRN most likely to observe in this situation?

Your patient has exam findings concerning for a strangulated hernia. What leads you to this conclusion and what is your next step?

After a well woman exam, a woman has just been diagnosed with high-risk HPV. The APRN should counsel her to receive regular examinations because this virus makes her at a higher risk for _____ cancer.

A 22-year-old woman is being seen at the clinic for problems with vulvar pain, dysuria, and fever. On physical examination, the APRN notices clusters of small, shallow vesicles with surrounding erythema on the labia. There is also inguinal lymphadenopathy present. The most likely cause of these lesions is:

The APRN examines a 6-month-old infant and places the infant’s feet flat on the table with his knee flexed and sacrum flat on the table. The APRN notes that the right knee is significantly lower than the left. Which of these statements is true of this finding?

During the physical examination, the nurse practitioner notices that a patient has an inverted left nipple. Which statement regarding this is most accurate?

An NP student is examining the neck of her patient during a routine physical exam.  The preceptor notices that she palpates the right carotid artery and the left carotid artery at the same time.   The preceptor should provide the following feedback to the student: