Northern Kentucky University MSN 610: Diagnostic Reasoning and Advanced Physical Assessment (GRADED A)

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24 year old male presents to the clinic with complaints of a worsening sore throat that began two days ago. He rates hispain as a 5/10 and describes it as scratchy and achy. He reports subjective feve... r last night. He had chills but did not takehis temperature. No recent URI or present symptoms such as runny nose, cough or shortness of breath. Reports that hetried taking ibuprofen for the pain with little relief. He does feel that drinking cold ice water helps soothe his throat.Swallowing makes the pain worse and it is also worse in the morning time per the patient. Patient denies nausea, vomitingor diarrhea. Denies rash. Denies being around any sick contacts. No one in his family or circle of friends smokes. Denieshistory of sinus infections or strep throat. PMH: generally healthy. Mild asthma that he manages with an inhaler asneeded. Denies ever using tobacco, alcohol or recreational drugs. [Show More]

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