Question 1. A patient has defective secretion of the intrinsic factor leading to anemia. What treatment
option does the healthcare professional discuss wi... [Show More] th the patient? Selected Answer: Vitamin B 12
injections initially given once a week.
Question 2. 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. 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 assessfor the cause of IDA?
Selected Answer: Have you ever noticed any blood in your stool?
Question 4. 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. A health care professional determinesthat the student needs more education when the
student makes which statement about treating bone infection? (tricky question) Selected Answer:
Bacteria are walled off by macrophages and T lymphocytes; consequently, the antibiotics cannot
penetrate the infected area.
Question 6. Which statement by the professor best describes acute respiratory distresssyndrome
(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. What is the effect of low plasma albumin? Selected Answer: Osmotic pressure decreases;
thus, water moves from the capillaries to the interstitium.
Question 8. 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. (Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rapid-onset muscle weakness caused by the immune system
damaging the peripheral nervous system. Typically, both sides of the body are involved, and the initial symptoms are changes in sensation or
pain often in the back along with muscle weakness, beginning in the feet and hands, often spreading to the arms and upper body.)
Question 9. 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 a child develops some secondary sex characteristics of the opposite sex. (e.g., virilization
of a girl, or feminization of a boy).
Question 10. 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: Exercise and weight reduction.
Question 11. Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA)system abnormalities exist in a large percentage of
individuals with what? Selected Answer: Major depression.
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Question 12. 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. What does the student learn distinguishes kwashiorkor from marasmus? Selected Answer:
Subcutaneous fat, hepatomegaly, and fatty liver are present in kwashiorkor.
Question 14. 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. 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: Assist the man in obtaining
a urine sample.
Question 16. What is the role of thromboxane A (TXA 2) in the secretion stage of hemostasis? Selected
Answer: Stimulates platelet aggregation.
Question 17. A woman who is positive for hepatitis B isin labor. What action by the healthcare
professional is most appropriate? Selected Answer: Immunize the newborn within 12 hours.
Question 18. 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. 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. 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. A healthcare professional is caring for a patient who has a spinal cord injury at T5. The
patient exhibitssevere hypertension, a heart rate of 32 beats/min, and sweating above the spinal cord
lesion. How does the professional chart this event? Selected Answer: Autonomic hyperreflexia.
Question 22. 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. What directly causes ovulation during the menstrual cycle? Selected Answer: Sudden
increase of LH.
Question 24. 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. A professor explains to a class that the reason lymph nodes enlarge and become tender
during infection is because of what reason? Selected Answer: B lymphocytes proliferate.
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Question 26. How does the epididymis become infected? Selected Answer: The pathogenic
microorganisms ascend the vasa deferentia from an already infected urethra or bladder.
Question 27. 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. Which spinal tract carries the most nociceptive information? Selected Answer: Lateral
spinothalamic.
Question 29. Which statement is likely true regarding children being treated for cancer with radiation
therapy? Selected Answer: They are at increased risk for developing childhood cancer.
Question 30. 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. A healthcare professional is trying to lower a patient's body temperature by convection.
What action by the professional will accomplish this? Selected Answer: Obtain a fan and set it to blow
over the patient.
Question 32. A parent asksthe healthcare professional to explain why a child diagnosed with Tetralogy of
Fallot squats frequently. What explanation by the professional is best? Selected Answer: Relieves [Show Less]
