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While interviewing a 70-year-old client, the nurse observes that the client does not have adequate control over her speech because of muscle weakness. The nurse would suspect which of the following as the cause?
 
  A) Broca's expressive aphasia
  B) Dysarthria
  C) Wernicke's aphasia
  D) Speech apraxia

Question 2

When the physician looks in a child's mouth during a sick-visit exam, the mother exclaims: Her tongue is bright red It was not like that yesterday.
 
   The physician would most likely order which medication based on the probable diagnosis of scarlet fever?
  A) Steroids to decrease the inflammation
  B) Acetaminophen to decrease the throat pain
  C) Penicillin to prevent acute glomerulonephritis
  D) Erythromycin to prevent the spread to siblings



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Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

C





 

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