6. You are seeing a patient who comes in with a complaint of onset of a cough about 5 days ago The patient

6. You are seeing a patient who comes in with a complaint of onset of a cough about 5 days ago The patient says they have a sore throat when they first got sick but that only lasted a couple days. The cough is productive for thick white sputum After listening to the patients lung fields, you make the diagnosis of bronchitis. With this initial treatment which of the following will you not recommend? Antitussives Expectorants Anti-inflammatories Antibiotics 7. You are working with an asthma patient and you wanting to add a drug to help control the inflammatory changes in the lungs. You could select from all of the following except: A. Cromolyn sodium inhaler (Intal) B. Albuterol inhaler (Proventil) C. Zafirlukast (Accolate) D. Budesonide (Pulmicort) 8. For your adult patient with acute, uncomplicated bacterial sinusitis how many days would the Amoxicillin be prescribed for? Answer: D. 10 days 9. A 38 year old patient cores in for follow up of evaluation of episodes of dyspnea on exertion increased sputum and a cough. The patient is a non smoker and does not have any history of exposure to second hand smoke in his home growing up or presently. The pulmonary functions testing you ordered reveal reversible obstruction. Which of the following interventions will the advanced practice nurse include in the pain for the management of this patient? Answer: A. Being treatment with an anti cholinergic inhaler 10. A ten year old boy with chronic environmental allergies and intermittent asthma comes in for a visit. Current medications include over the counter loratadine (Claritin) 10 mg daily and 2 puffs of his Albuterol inhaler as needed. He reports that over the last month he is needing to use his Albuterol inhaler before PE class, so he doesn’t get short of breath. Which of the following medications might be considered for treating his now mild persistent asthma that would also be appropriate treatment for his chronic environmental allergies Answer: b. Singular ClartinD Allegra Advair diskus