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What is the clinical utility of erythropoietin (EPO) testing?

Identify the role of intrinsic factor:

The nurse practitioner is conducting a follow-up examination on a child who has recently begun taking a low-dose stimulant medication to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The child’s school performance and home behaviors have improved. The child’s parent reports noticing a few tics, such a twitching of the eyelids, but the child is unaware of them and isn’t bothered by them. What will the nurse practitioner recommend?  

What will the nurse practitioner teach the parents of a child who has new pressure-equalizing tubes (PET) in both ears?  

Which of these is not a demographic trend that Dr. Hunt described occurring in the United States currently?

The nurse practitioner performs a vision screen on a 6-month-old infant and notes the presence of convergence and accommodation with mild esotropia of the left eye. What will the nurse practitioner do?

A patient who is status post right hemispheric stroke presents to physical therapy for gait training. During your observational gait analysis, you note that the patient’s knee is in hyperextension from loading response through terminal stance phase of gait. Which of the following body structure and function impairments is MOST likely contributing to this gait dysfunction?  

ALL BUT WHICH of the following spatial-temporal gait characteristics are common after stroke? 

A patient presents with one-sided hemiplegia and hemisensory loss following a severe hemorrhagic stroke. The patient is alert and can speak but is quick, impulsive, and unsafe during transfers. He seems unaware of the severity of his deficits.  Based on this clinical presentation, which type of stroke did this patient have? 

You are an outpatient physical therapist. Your patient has a baclofen pump implanted for medical management of spasticity. The patient informs you that he has an appointment with his neurologist in the morning on the same day he is to come see you in the afternoon for physical therapy. The doctor plans to increase the dosage of baclofen. Based on your understanding of this medication, what should you consider when planning the treatment session?