NURS-650 Advanced Pathophysiology Exam 2020 Summer

 Question 1 1 out of 1 points A patient has defective secretion of the intrinsic factor leading to anemia. What treatment option does the healthcare professional discuss with the patient? Selected Answer: Vitamin B ...

 Question 1 1 out of 1 points A patient has defective secretion of the intrinsic factor leading to anemia. What treatment option does the healthcare professional discuss with the patient? Selected Answer: Vitamin B 12 injections initially given once a week.  Question 2 1 out of 1 points A health care professional is teaching a group of college women about increasing calcium in the diet to prevent osteoporosis. A participant asks at what age is peak bone mass is reached in women. What response is best? Selected Answer: 30 years  Question 3 1 out of 1 points A healthcare professional in an urban clinic is seeing a patient who has iron deficiency anemia (IDA). What question by the professional is most appropriate to assess for the cause of IDA? Selected Answer: 1cHave you ever noticed any blood in your stool? 1d  Question 4 1 out of 1 points How should the healthcare professional reply when parents question why a computed tomographic (CT) scan of the head was not ordered for their 5-year-old child after a minor fall? Selected Answer: Research suggests that repeated CT scans can increase the risk of developing brain cancer.  Question 5 1 out of 1 points A health care professional determines that the student needs more education when the student makes which statement about treating bone infection? Selected Answer: Bacteria are walled off by macrophages and T lymphocytes; consequently, the antibiotics cannot penetrate the infected area.  Question 6 1 out of 1 points Which statement by the professor best describes acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)? Selected Answer: A pulmonary disease characterized by severe hypoxemia, decreased pulmonary compliance, and the presence of bilateral infiltrates on chest x-ray imaging  Question 7 1 out of 1 points What is the effect of low plasma albumin? Selected Answer: Osmotic pressure decreases; thus water moves from the capillaries to the interstitium.  Question 8 1 out of 1 points A patient has been hospitalized with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). The patient asks how this could have occurred. What response by the healthcare professional is best? Selected Answer: It is often preceded by a viral illness.  Question 9 0 out of 1 points A student reads in a chart that a child has been diagnosed with mixed precocious puberty and asks for an explanation. What explanation by the healthcare professional is most accurate? Selected Answer: When early puberty has signs of physical and hormonal abnormalities  Question 10 0 out of 1 points A patient reports joint stiffness with movement and joint pain in weightbearing joints that is usually relieved by rest. What treatment option does the health care professional discuss with the patient? Selected Answer: Ways to decrease serum uric acid  Question 11 1 out of 1 points Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) system abnormalities exist in a large percentage of individuals with what? Selected Answer: Major depression  Question 12 1 out of 1 points Which statement by the healthcare professional accurately describes childhood asthma? Selected Answer: An obstructive airway disease characterized by reversible airflow obstruction, bronchial hyperreactivity, and inflammation  Question 13 0 out of 1 points What does the student learn distinguishes kwashiorkor from marasmus? Selected Answer: Physical growth of children is stunted in kwashiorkor but not in marasmus.  Question 14 1 out of 1 points A patient has primary immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) and is hospitalized after a bleeding episode. What treatment does the healthcare provider anticipate being ordered for this patient? Selected Answer: Infusion of IVIG  Question 15 0 out of 1 points A man reports to the healthcare professional that he had a sudden onset of malaise, low back pain, and perineal pain with high fever and chills, dysuria, nocturia, and urinary retention. What action by the healthcare professional is most appropriate? Selected Answer: Assess the man's recent sexual history.  Question 16 1 out of 1 points What is the role of thromboxane A (TXA 2) in the secretion stage of hemostasis? Selected Answer: Stimulates platelet aggregation.  Question 17 1 out of 1 points A woman who is positive for hepatitis B is in labor. What action by the healthcare professional is most appropriate? Selected Answer: Immunize the newborn within 12 hours.  Question 18 1 out of 1 points A person has been diagnosed with primary dysmenorrhea and wants to know why ibuprofen is a good choice for pain control. What response by the health care professional is best? Selected Answer: It reduces the production of prostaglandins in your body.  Question 19 1 out of 1 points A preschool teacher notices a child who has burrows on the hands that are several millimeters to 1 cm long, papules, and vesicular lesions. What other assessment finding would help the teacher determine the type of infestation the child has? Selected Answer: Ask the child if itching occurs especially at night.  Question 20 1 out of 1 points Compared with an adult, an infant has a greater content of extracellular fluid, as well as a greater rate of fluid exchange. What effect does this have on the fluid balance of a child compared with that of an adult? Selected Answer: The control of dehydration is more difficult.  Question 21 0 out of 1 points A healthcare professional is caring for a patient who has a spinal cord injury at T5. The patient exhibits severe hypertension, a heart rate of 32 beats/min, and sweating above the spinal cord lesion. How does the professional chart this event? Selected Answer: Parasympathetic dysreflexia  Question 22 1 out of 1 points Which condition is consistent with the cardiac defect of transposition of the great vessels? Selected Answer: The aorta arises from the right ventricle.  Question 23 1 out of 1 points What directly causes ovulation during the menstrual cycle? Selected Answer: Sudden increase of LH  Question 24 1 out of 1 points A healthcare professional is caring for a patient diagnosed with aphasia. What action by the professional would be best in working with this patient? Selected Answer: Provide speech therapy.  Question 25 0 out of 1 points A professor explains to a class that the reason lymph nodes enlarge and become tender during infection is because of what reason? Selected Answer: The nodes fill with purulent exudate.  Question 26 1 out of 1 points How does the epididymis become infected? Selected Answer: The pathogenic microorganisms ascend the vasa deferentia from an already infected urethra or bladder.  Question 27 1 out of 1 points In acute hypothermia, what physiologic change shunts blood away from the colder skin to the body core in an effort to decrease heat loss? Selected Answer: Peripheral vasoconstriction  Question 28 1 out of 1 points Which spinal tract carries the most nociceptive information? Selected Answer: Lateral spinothalamic  Question 29 0 out of 1 points Which statement is likely true regarding children being treated for cancer with radiation therapy? Selected Answer: They are prone to experience severe developmental delays.  Question 30 1 out of 1 points A health care professional is caring for a patient admitted to the hospital with severe anorexia. What action by the health care professional would be most important? Selected Answer: Ensuring the patient is on a cardiac monitor  Question 31 1 out of 1 points