Inflammation of the pericardial sac causes a sharp and stabbing chest pain.  The pain is worse with coughing, swallowing, deep breath or lying flat.  A friction rub is easily heard at the 3rd-4th intercostal spade just left of the sternum.  This diagnosis is:

Which of the following characteristics does NOT directly affect arterial pulses?

Which question has the most potential for exploring a patient’s cultural beliefs related to a health problem?

You are palpating a patient’s thyroid and find that it’s broadest dimension measures 4 cm.  The right lobe is 25% larger than the left and measures 4 cm.  This data indicates:

Your first patient reports an increase in her alcohol intake over the past 5 years. You plan to use a screening questionnaire for problem drinking/alcoholism to determine if a more complete assessment is needed.   You would use the:

The Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE) is a standard screening tool that is used to estimate cognitive function quantitively or to document cognitive changes serially. It is most often used with elderly patients. Which of the following statements is true:

Subjective data is information that comes from opinions, perceptions or experiences. Subjective and symptomatic data are:

The number of lymph nodes may dimmish and size may decrease with advanced age. The ability to resist infection decreases in elderly people because the lymphatic nodes become more:

You are examining a 79-year-old patient with the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus.  He is describing the symptoms of claudication that he experiences while he is walking.  Which of the following physical finding is consistent with the diagnosis of arterial insufficiency?

Given the graph of the exponential function shown below, which of the following statements must be true?