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NURS 6501N Final Exam – Question and Answers A woman diagnosed with trichomoniasis asks if her sexual partner should be treated as well. What is the a... [Show More] ppropriate response by the healthcare professional? An infant is brought to the emergency department by parents who report that the baby’s fontanels seem to be bulging outward. What action by the healthcare provider is most appropriate? A patient has polycythemia vera and presents to the Emergency Department with plethora and neurological changes. The student asks the healthcare professional to explain the primary cause of these symptoms. What response by the professional is best? When are childhood cancers most often diagnosed? A severely malnourished patient is in the hospital to improve nutrition. On the second day, the patient reports palpitations and difficulty breathing. After placing the patient on a cardiac monitor, what action does the health care professional take next? The student wants to know how the clinical manifestations and onset of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) differ from those of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in adults. What answer by the healthcare professional is best? A patient has a temporary displacement of two bones in a joint causing the bone surfaces to partially lose contact with each other. What treatment does the health care professional prepare the patient for? 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? The disruption in cellular adhesion observed in bullous impetigo is caused by an exfoliative toxin related to which organism? A mother reports that her young teens have voracious appetites. The healthcare professional would explain that which hormone is linked to an increase in appetite during puberty? What diagnosis is given to parents when their infant’s hip maintains contact with the acetabulum but is not well seated within the hip joint? The healthcare professional directs a student to assess a teen who has Osgood-Schlatter disease. What assessment finding does the student anticipate for this disorder? What are the clinical manifestations of testicular cancer? 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? An infant has been diagnosed with intussusception and the student asks the healthcare professional to explain the condition. What explanation by the professional is most accurate? Which statement by the healthcare professional accurately describes childhood asthma? A patient is in status epilepticus. In addition to giving medication to stop the seizures, what would the healthcare professional place highest priority on? A health care professional determines that the student needs more education when the student makes which statement about treating bone infection? 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? What is the link between major depression and cortisol secretion? A student asks the professor to explain the jaundice that accompanies hemolytic anemia. Which statement is by the professor is most accurate? Which cells function to maintain bone matrix? A child has Duchenne muscular dystrophy and the parents want to know how this occurred. Which statement by the healthcare professional is most accurate? What is the role of thromboxane A (TXA 2) in the secretion stage of hemostasis? A healthcare professional is educating a community men’s group on symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The professional relates that most symptoms are a result of which pathophysiologic condition? A student studying osteomyelitis and asks for an explanation of the term sequestrum. What response by the professor is best? A child with acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis is voiding smoky, brown-colored urine and asks the healthcare professional to explain what causes it. What explanation by the professional is best? A patient has been diagnosed with lithium toxicity. Which electrolyte imbalance does the healthcare professional correlate with this condition? A 7 year-old-child presents to the clinic where parents report signs and symptoms consistent with asthma. What does the healthcare professional do in order to confirm this diagnosis? A 9-year-old child has a blood pressure of 112/72 mmHg in the school nurse’s office. What action by the school nurse is most appropriate? 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? What is the consequence of a splenectomy? Gait disturbances and instability are characteristic of which form of cerebral palsy? A person has been diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) that is positive for the Philadelphia chromosome. What statement by the healthcare professional is most appropriate? A patient in the clinic had a femur x-ray that was read as having a moth-eaten appearance. What treatment option does the health care professional discuss with the patient? Local signs and symptoms of Hodgkin disease-related lymphadenopathy are a result of what? A child has scoliosis with a 40-degree curvature of the spine, and the parent is worried about pulmonary involvement. What statement by the healthcare professional is most appropriate? Without prior exposure to an antigen, which cells are able to destroy some types of tumor cells and some virus-infected cells? Which hospitalized patient does the healthcare professional assess as a priority for the development of delirium? What does the student learn distinguishes kwashiorkor from marasmus? The healthcare professor states that a patient has reached pain tolerance. What further information from the professor is most accurate? A healthcare professional is caring for a patient who was rewarmed after suffering from hypothermia. What possible long-term complication will the professional continue to assess the patient for? 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? A child has osteosarcoma and the healthcare team is assessing for metastases. What diagnostic study would be the priority? A patient has defective secretion of the intrinsic factor leading to anemia. What treatment option does the healthcare professional discuss with the patient? An infant has a continuous machine-type murmur best heard at the left upper sternal border throughout systole and diastole. The healthcare professional suspects a congenital heart disorder. What other assessment finding is inconsistent with the professional’s knowledge about this disorder? A student asks the health care professional why obese people are at higher risk for hypertension than non-obese individuals. What response by the professional is best? 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? What is the most abundant class of plasma protein? A healthcare professional is reviewing a patient’s laboratory results and sees that the patient has a low reticulocyte count and a high iron level. Which type of anemia does the professional associate these findings with? 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? A child has iron deficiency anemia. In addition to iron supplements, what else does the healthcare professional educate the parents on giving the child? A healthcare professional is planning a community event to reduce risk of cerebrovascular accident (CVA) in high risk groups. Which group would the professional target as the priority? A healthcare professional has educated a student on folic acid. Which statement by the student indicates that more teaching is needed? In acute hypothermia, what physiologic change shunts blood away from the colder skin to the body core in an effort to decrease heat loss? A woman who is positive for hepatitis B is in labor. What action by the healthcare professional is most appropriate? What is the first indication of nephrotic syndrome in children? Which condition is considered a clinical cause of amenorrhea? A patient is admitted to the hospital with multiple myeloma (MM). Which diagnostic test should the healthcare professional assess as the priority? What is the primary pathologic alteration resulting from ankylosing spondylitis (AS)? A woman has been diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome but is confused because her pelvic ultrasound (US) was read as normal and did not show cysts. What response by the health care professional is most appropriate? Why is nasal congestion a serious threat to young infants? What causes the vasomotor flushes (hot flashes) that are associated with declining ovarian function with age? A patient has chronic anemia associated with chronic renal failure. What substance does the healthcare professional tell the patient is needed to treat this anemia? A patient has been hospitalized for a large deep vein thrombosis and states he is the third person in his family to have this condition in the last 2 years. What response by the healthcare professional is most appropriate? A patient reports frequent nightmares. For which of these should the healthcare professional assess the patient? Cystic fibrosis is characterized by which symptom? To quickly assess a patient’s nervous system for dysfunction, what assessment should the healthcare professional perform as the priority? A healthcare professional wants to volunteer for a community education project to help prevent spinal cord injury. What activity would the professional most likely volunteer for? A healthcare professional advises a pregnant woman to add supplements of which nutrient to her diet to prevent birth defects? In which stage of syphilis would the following clinical manifestations be found: destructive skin, bone and soft tissue lesions, aneurysms, heart failure, and neurosyphilis? 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? A healthcare professional has taught a parent group about the causes of enuresis. What statement by a parent indicates the professional needs to give more information? An infant has gluten-sensitive enteropathy and the parents ask the healthcare professional to explain why the baby bruises so easily. The professional explains that the baby has which deficit? A child has phenylketonuria (PKU). The healthcare professional educates the parents on the special diet needed, telling them that children with PKU are unable to synthesize what? A healthcare professional had taught a pregnant woman about the risk of transmitting herpes simplex virus (HSV) from her to her fetus. What statement by the woman indicates the professional needs to provide more information? Prenatal exposure to diethylstilbestrol (DES) can result in which type of cancer? A student asks the professor what the most common pathophysiologic process is that triggers aplastic anemia (AA). What response by the professor is most accurate? What congenital malformation is commonly linked to acute leukemia in children? Which pain theory proposes that a balance of impulses conducted from the spinal cord to the higher centers in the central nervous system (CNS) modulates the transmission of pain? The student asks the professor for a definition of orexigenic neurons. What description by the professor is most accurate? A patient has been exposed to prolonged high environmental temperatures and now shows signs of dehydration, decreased plasma volumes, hypotension, decreased cardiac output, and tachycardia. What treatment does the healthcare professional prepare to administer to this patient? Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) system abnormalities exist in a large percentage of individuals with what? What initiates inflammation in acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis? Which statement is likely true regarding children being treated for cancer with radiation therapy? In order to help prevent a preadolescent girl from developing later cervical cancer, which virus does the healthcare professional recommend vaccination against to the parent? What is the primary cause of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) of the newborn? In immunoglobulin G (IgG) nephropathies such as glomerulonephritis, IgG is deposited in which location? How is gonorrhea transmitted from a pregnant woman to her fetus? Which immunoglobulin (Ig) is present in childhood asthma? Which patient finding would lead the health care professional to assess the patient for inflammatory joint disease? A parent brings a 10-year-old child to the clinic and reports a mottled appearance to the skin and legs cramps when the child is in physical education class. Physical assessment positive for upper extremity hypertension. What diagnostic testing or treatment does the healthcare professional prepare the family for? A patient has been diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) and asks the healthcare professional to describe it. What description by the professional is most accurate? A patient has damage to the lower pons and medulla. What finding does the healthcare professional associate with this injury? 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? A patient is in the intensive care unit and has intercranial pressure (ICP) monitoring. The patient’s ICP is 17 mmHg. The healthcare professional notes that the chart indicates the patient is now in stage 1 intracranial hypertension. What assessment finding does the professional associate with this condition? A baby is born with a myelomeningocele and needs urgent surgery to repair the defect. The parents want to take the baby home instead. What does the healthcare professional tell the parents about the purpose of this surgery? A healthcare professional is teaching a community group about inherited disorders. What pattern of inheritance does the professional describe for sickle cell disease? Which statement by the professor best describes acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)? A professor explains to a class that the reason lymph nodes enlarge and become tender during infection is because of what reason? [Show Less]
NURS 6501 Final Exam Question and Answers A child with acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis is voiding smoky, brown-colored urine and asks the hea... [Show More] lthcare professional to explain what causes it. What explanation by the professional is best? Cystic fibrosis is characterized by which symptom? What is the primary pathologic alteration resulting from ankylosing spondylitis (AS)? Which spinal tract carries the most nociceptive information? Parents bring their 1-year-old child to the emergency department, reporting that the child has been irritable and pounding on her head, has projectile vomiting, and seems very sleepy for most of the last 3 days. What diagnostic testing does the healthcare professional prepare the child and parents for as the priority? A patient reports frequent nightmares. For which of these should the healthcare professional assess the patient? A newborn baby displays jaundice 20 hours after birth. What action by the healthcare professional is most appropriate? Local signs and symptoms of Hodgkin disease-related lymphadenopathy are a result of what? Which bones are affected in Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease? A patient has been diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) and asks the healthcare professional to describe it. What description by the professional is most accurate? A newborn has meconium ileus. What diagnostic test does the healthcare professional advise the parents about? A healthcare professional is educating a community men’s group on symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The professional relates that most symptoms are a result of which pathophysiologic condition? A patient in the healthcare clinic reports fatigue, weakness, and dyspnea, as well as pale conjunctiva of the eyes and brittle, concave nails. What assessment by the healthcare professional is most appropriate for the suspected anemia? Prenatal exposure to diethylstilbestrol (DES) can result in which type of cancer? A healthcare professional is caring for a patient diagnosed with aphasia. What action by the professional would be best in working with this patient? What are the clinical manifestations of testicular cancer? A person has been diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) that is positive for the Philadelphia chromosome. What statement by the healthcare professional is most appropriate? The healthcare professional directs a student to assess a teen who has Osgood-Schlatter disease. What assessment finding does the student anticipate for this disorder? Which statement by the healthcare professional accurately describes childhood asthma? A healthcare professional is reviewing a patient’s laboratory results and sees that the patient has a low reticulocyte count and a high iron level. Which type of anemia does the professional associate these findings with? What directly causes ovulation during the menstrual cycle? A patient has been hospitalized for a large deep vein thrombosis and states he is the third person in his family to have this condition in the last 2 years. What response by the healthcare professional is most appropriate? A professor explains to a class that the reason lymph nodes enlarge and become tender during infection is because of what reason? A healthcare professional advises a pregnant woman to add supplements of which nutrient to her diet to prevent birth defects? A parent brings a 10-year-old child to the clinic and reports a mottled appearance to the skin and legs cramps when the child is in physical education class. Physical assessment positive for upper extremity hypertension. What diagnostic testing or treatment does the healthcare professional prepare the family for? A person has abnormally severe tooth decay and erosion of the tooth enamel. What problem should the health care professional assess the person for? A healthcare professional had taught a pregnant woman about the risk of transmitting herpes simplex virus (HSV) from her to her fetus. What statement by the woman indicates the professional needs to provide more information? Without prior exposure to an antigen, which cells are able to destroy some types of tumor cells and some virus-infected cells? Which statement by the professor best describes acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)? What is the role of thromboxane A (TXA 2) in the secretion stage of hemostasis? Parents report their 3-week-old infant who eats well and has gained weight began to have projectile vomiting for no apparent reason. What treatment option does the healthcare professional prepare to educate the parents on? A child has Duchenne muscular dystrophy. What complication does the healthcare professional teach the parents is most important to control? To quickly assess a patient’s nervous system for dysfunction, what assessment should the healthcare professional perform as the priority? A criterion for a diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a period of excessive worrying that lasts for at least how many months? A patient has been diagnosed with lithium toxicity. Which electrolyte imbalance does the healthcare professional correlate with this condition? A severely malnourished patient is in the hospital to improve nutrition. On the second day, the patient reports palpitations and difficulty breathing. After placing the patient on a cardiac monitor, what action does the health care professional take next? Gait disturbances and instability are characteristic of which form of cerebral palsy? A healthcare professional works with recent refugees. A mother brings in her children who have been diagnosed with iron deficiency anemia. What action by the professional is most appropriate? Which pain theory proposes that a balance of impulses conducted from the spinal cord to the higher centers in the central nervous system (CNS) modulates the transmission of pain? Which statement is likely true regarding children being treated for cancer with radiation therapy? A patient had a seizure that consisted of impaired consciousness and the appearance of a dreamlike state. How does the healthcare professional chart this episode? A child has Duchenne muscular dystrophy and the parents want to know how this occurred. Which statement by the healthcare professional is most accurate? (NURS 6501 Final Exam) Why is nasal congestion a serious threat to young infants? A patient is in the Emergency Department with heat stroke. What finding does the healthcare provider associate with this condition? A student is learning about pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). What information does the student clarify with a study partner as being correct? In acute hypothermia, what physiologic change shunts blood away from the colder skin to the body core in an effort to decrease heat loss? Which immunoglobulin (Ig) is present in childhood asthma? Clinical manifestations that include irregular or heavy bleeding, the passage of large clots, and the depletion of iron stores support which diagnosis? An adult patient has been hospitalized with thrombocytopenia with a platelet count of 8000/mm 3. What action by the healthcare professional is most appropriate? A 9-year-old child has a blood pressure of 112/72 mmHg in the school nurse’s office. What action by the school nurse is most appropriate? 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? A patient has been hospitalize with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). The patient asks how this could have occur. What response by the healthcare professional is best? A student asks the healthcare professional why researchers are trying to link specific genes to specific asthma phenotypes. What response by the professional is best? The disruption in cellular adhesion observe in bullous impetigo is cause by an exfoliative toxin relate to which organism? A healthcare professional is seeing a patient with suspected schizophrenia. For which prenatal occurrence should the professional assess? In order to help prevent a preadolescent girl from developing later cervical cancer, which virus does the healthcare professional recommend vaccination against to the parent? A child has cystic fibrosis (CF). Which medication does the healthcare professional teach the parents about? A healthcare professional is discussing breast feeding with a pregnant woman. Which beneficial substance does the professional tell the mother is found in breast milk? (NURS 6501 Final Exam) Which condition is consider a clinical cause of amenorrhea? A person comes to the healthcare clinic and reports night sweats and fever. The healthcare professional obtains a chest x-ray which shows a mediastinal mass. What other assessment or diagnostic test does the professional provide as a priority? What initiates inflammation in acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis? The student asks the professor for a definition of orexigenic neurons. What description by the professor is most accurate? 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? A patient is 8 hours postoperative after a long orthopedic procedure. The student asks why this patient is at particular risk of developing a thromboembolism. What response by the healthcare professional is best? A healthcare professional is caring for a patient who was rewarmed after suffering from hypothermia. What possible long-term complication will the professional continue to assess the patient for? Which patient finding would lead the health care professional to assess the patient for inflammatory joint disease? A child has osteosarcoma and the healthcare team is assessing for metastases. What diagnostic study would be the priority? 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? What is the consequence of a splenectomy? (NURS 6501 Final Exam) 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? A patient is in status epilepticus. In addition to giving medication to stop the seizures, what would the healthcare professional place highest priority on? A woman diagnose with trichomoniasis asks if her sexual partner should be treated as well. What is the appropriate response by the healthcare professional? A mother reports that her young teens have voracious appetites. The healthcare professional would explain that which hormone is link to an increase in appetite during puberty? A patient has chronic anemia associated with chronic renal failure. What substance does the healthcare professional tell the patient is need to treat this anemia? A man has balanitis. What action by the healthcare professional is most appropriate? A pregnant woman is seen for the first time at 6 months’ gestation and has not take prenatal vitamins. The healthcare professional educates the woman on the need for a blood test specifically to assess what substance? A healthcare professional has taught a parent group about the causes of enuresis. What statement by a parent indicates the professional needs to give more information? (NURS 6501 Final Exam) What is the most abundant class of plasma protein? A 7 year-old-child presents to the clinic where parents report signs and symptoms consistent with asthma. What does the healthcare professional do in order to confirm this diagnosis? In which stage of syphilis would the follow clinical manifestations be found: destructive skin, bone and soft tissue lesions, aneurysms, heart failure, and neurosyphilis? 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? A healthcare professional wants to volunteer for a community education project to help prevent spinal cord injury. What activity would the professional most likely volunteer for? (NURS 6501 Final Exam) In immunoglobulin G (IgG) nephropathies such as glomerulonephritis, IgG is deposited in which location? A patient has been expose to prolong high environmental temperatures and now shows signs of dehydration, decreased plasma volumes, hypotension, decrease cardiac output, and tachycardia. What treatment does the healthcare professional prepare to administer to this patient? What does the student learn distinguish kwashiorkor from marasmus? A patient in the clinic had a femur x-ray that was read as have a moth-eaten appearance. What treatment option does the health care professional discuss with the patient? What diagnosis is give to parents when their infant’s hip maintains contact with the acetabulum but is not well seat within the hip joint? A hospitalized patient’s lab work is as follows: WBC 2000, bands 14.8%, and segmented neutrophils 5. The healthcare professional calculates the patient’s absolute neutrophil count (ANC). What action does the professional take next? A patient has damage to the lower pons and medulla. What finding does the healthcare professional associate with this injury? In infectious mononucleosis (IM), what does the Monospot test detect? What is the link between major depression and cortisol secretion? Which condition is consistent with the cardiac defect of transposition of the great vessels? An infant has been diagnose with intussusception and the student asks the healthcare professional to explain the condition. What explanation by the professional is most accurate? (NURS 6501 Final Exam) A healthcare professional is planning a community event to reduce risk of cerebrovascular accident (CVA) in high risk groups. Which group would the professional target as the priority? A patient has primary immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) and is hospitalize after a bleeding episode. What treatment does the healthcare provider anticipate be order for this patient? The healthcare professor states that a patient has reached pain tolerance. What further information from the professor is most accurate? A patient has defective secretion of the intrinsic factor leading to anemia. What treatment option does the healthcare professional discuss with the patient? How is gonorrhea transmit from a pregnant woman to her fetus? What is the first indication of nephrotic syndrome in children? Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) system abnormalities exist in a large percentage of individuals with what? Check out our latest courses on PSYC 502 Week 3. [Show Less]
Which cells function to maintain bone matrix? Prenatal exposure to diethylstilbestrol (DES) can result in which type of cancer? Which statement by the pr... [Show More] ofessor best describes acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)? In infectious mononucleosis (IM), what does the Monospot test detect? A patient has been hospitalized for a large deep vein thrombosis and states he is the third person in his family to have this condition in the last 2 years. What response by the healthcare professional is most appropriate? The healthcare professor states that a patient has reached pain tolerance. What further information from the professor is most accurate? A healthcare professional is teaching a community group about inherited disorders. What pattern of inheritance does the professional describe for sickle cell disease? What is the link between major depression and cortisol secretion? A healthcare professional is planning a community event to reduce the risk of cerebrovascular accidents (CVA) in high-risk groups. Which group would the professional target as the priority? A woman has been diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome but is confused because her pelvic ultrasound (US) was read as normal and did not show cysts. What response by the health care professional is most appropriate? A child has iron-deficiency anemia. In addition to iron supplements, what else does the healthcare professional educate the parents on giving the child? A person has been diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) that is positive for the Philadelphia chromosome. What statement by the healthcare professional is most appropriate? Cystic fibrosis is characterized by which symptom? 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? A hospitalized patient’s lab work is as follows: WBC 2000, bands 14.8%, and segmented neutrophils 5. The healthcare professional calculates the patient’s absolute neutrophil count (ANC). What action does the professional take next? A patient has been diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) and asks the healthcare professional to describe it. What description by the professional is most accurate? A healthcare professional is discussing breastfeeding with a pregnant woman. Which beneficial substance does the professional tell the mother is found in breast milk? Clinical manifestations that include irregular or heavy bleeding, the passage of large clots, and the depletion of iron stores support which diagnosis? What is the consequence of a splenectomy? What congenital malformation is commonly linked to acute leukemia in children? The student wants to know how the clinical manifestations and onset of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) differ from those of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in adults. What answer by the healthcare professional is best? A student is learning about pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). What information does the student clarify with a study partner as being correct? A newborn baby displays jaundice 20 hours after birth. What action by the healthcare professional is most appropriate? A patient reports joint stiffness with movement and joint pain in weight-bearing joints that is usually relieved by rest. What treatment option does the health care professional discuss with the patient? How does the epididymis become infected? An infant has a continuous machine-type murmur best heard at the left upper sternal border throughout systole and diastole. The healthcare professional suspects a congenital heart disorder. What other assessment finding is inconsistent with the professional’s knowledge about this disorder? A patient has damage to the lower pons and medulla. What finding does the healthcare professional associate with this injury? A baby is born with a myelomeningocele and needs urgent surgery to repair the defect. The parents want to take the baby home instead. What does the healthcare professional tell the parents about the purpose of this surgery? A healthcare professional is caring for a patient diagnosed with aphasia. What action by the professional would be best in working with this patient? In which stage of syphilis would the following clinical manifestations be found: destructive skin, bone and soft tissue lesions, aneurysms, heart failure, and neurosyphilis? A patient is 8 hours postoperative after a long orthopedic procedure. The student asks why this patient is at particular risk of developing a thromboembolism. What response by the healthcare professional is best? The disruption in cellular adhesion observed in bullous impetigo is caused by an exfoliative toxin related to which organism? A healthcare professional is reviewing a patient’s laboratory results and sees that the patient has a low reticulocyte count and a high iron level. Which type of anemia does the professional associate these findings with? A healthcare professional is caring for a patient who was rewarmed after suffering from hypothermia. What possible long-term complication will the professional continue to assess the patient for? A professor explains to a class that the reason lymph nodes enlarge and become tender during infection is because of what reason? Local signs and symptoms of Hodgkin disease-related lymphadenopathy are a result of what? In immunoglobulin G (IgG) nephropathies such as glomerulonephritis, IgG is deposited in which location? A man has balanitis. What action by the healthcare professional is most appropriate? A person has a vascular anomaly associated with a congenital malformation of dermal capillaries and has been told this lesion does not fade with age. What treatment options can the healthcare professional discuss with this person? A person comes to the healthcare clinic and reports night sweats and fever. The healthcare professional obtains a chest x-ray which shows a mediastinal mass. What other assessment or diagnostic test does the professional provide as a priority? A patient had a seizure that consisted of impaired consciousness and the appearance of a dreamlike state. How does the healthcare professional chart this episode? A healthcare professional had taught a pregnant woman about the risk of transmitting herpes simplex virus (HSV) from her to her fetus. What statement by the woman indicates the professional needs to provide more information? An adult patient has been hospitalized with thrombocytopenia with a platelet count of 8000/mm 3. What action by the healthcare professional is most appropriate? A healthcare professional works with recent refugees. A mother brings in her children who have been diagnosed with iron deficiency anemia. What action by the professional is most appropriate? A patient has been diagnosed with lithium toxicity. Which electrolyte imbalance does the healthcare professional correlate with this condition? 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? 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? A patient in the hospital has been receiving heparin injections. The platelet count on admission was 222,000/mm 3 and four days later is 113,000/mm 3. What action by the healthcare professional is best? A child has phenylketonuria (PKU). The healthcare professional educates the parents on the special diet needed, telling them that children with PKU are unable to synthesize what? Compared with an adult, an infant has a greater content of the 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? A parent brings a 10-year-old child to the clinic and reports a mottled appearance to the skin and legs cramps when the child is in physical education class. Physical assessment positive for upper extremity hypertension. What diagnostic testing or treatment does the healthcare professional prepare the family for? A student asks the professor to explain the jaundice that accompanies hemolytic anemia. Which statement is by the professor is most accurate? A patient in the healthcare clinic reports fatigue, weakness, and dyspnea, as well as pale conjunctiva of the eyes and brittle, concave nails. What assessment by the healthcare professional is most appropriate for the suspected anemia? Which condition is considere a clinical cause of amenorrhea? A child with acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis is voiding smoky, brown-color urine and asks the healthcare professional to explain what causes it. What explanation by the professional is best? A criterion for a diagnosis of a generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a period of excessive worrying that lasts for at least how many months? Which pain theory proposes that a balance of impulses conducted from the spinal cord to the higher centers in the central nervous system (CNS) modulates the transmission of pain? A child has osteosarcoma and the healthcare team is assessing for metastases. What diagnostic study would be the priority? A patient has been expose to prolong high environmental temperatures and now shows signs of dehydration, decrease plasma volumes, hypotension, decrease cardiac output, and tachycardia. What treatment does the healthcare professional prepare to administer to this patient? A healthcare professional advises a pregnant woman to add supplements of which nutrient to her diet to prevent birth defects? A parent asks the healthcare professional to explain why a child diagnosed with Tetralogy of Fallot squats frequently. What explanation by the professional is best? What are the clinical manifestations of testicular cancer? A woman attempting to conceive tells the healthcare professional that she and her partner have intercourse when her basal body temperature (BBT) is around 37?C (98?F) without getting pregnant. What information does the professional give the woman? A healthcare professional is seeing a patient with suspected schizophrenia. For which prenatal occurrence should the professional assess? What directly causes ovulation during the menstrual cycle? A healthcare professional is educating a community men’s group on symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The professional relates that most symptoms are a result of which pathophysiologic condition? A woman who is positive for hepatitis B is in labor. What action by the healthcare professional is most appropriate? An infant has been diagnose with intussusception and the student asks the healthcare professional to explain the condition. What explanation by the professional is most accurate? A patient has been hospitalize with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). The patient asks how this could have occurred. What response by the healthcare professional is best? A healthcare professional wants to volunteer for a community education project to help prevent spinal cord injury. What activity would the professional most likely volunteer for? A child has Duchenne muscular dystrophy. What complication does the healthcare professional teach the parents is most important to control? Which patient find would lead the health care professional to assess the patient for inflammatory joint disease? A student asks the health care professional why obese people are at higher risk for hypertension than non-obese individuals. What response by the professional is best? A person has been diagnose 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? A healthcare professional suspects a patient is brain dead. How would the professional assess for brain death? A patient is in status epilepticus. In addition to giving medication to stop the seizures, what would the healthcare professional place highest priority on? A newborn has meconium ileus. What diagnostic test does the healthcare professional advise the parents about? Which statement is likely true regarding children being treated for cancer with radiation therapy? A student studying osteomyelitis and asks for an explanation of the term sequestrum. What response by the professor is best? To quickly assess a patient’s nervous system for dysfunction, what assessment should the healthcare professional perform as the priority? What is the most abundant class of plasma protein? In acute hypothermia, what physiologic change shunts blood away from the colder skin to the body core in an effort to decrease heat loss? 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 reach in women. What response is best? Which statement by the healthcare professional accurately describes childhood asthma? A patient is in the intensive care unit and has intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring. The patient’s ICP is 17 mmHg. The healthcare professional notes that the chart indicates the patient is now in stage 1 intracranial hypertension. What assessment finding does the professional association with this condition? A healthcare professional is trying to lower a patient’s body temperature by convection. What action by the professional will accomplish this? How is gonorrhea transmitted from a pregnant woman to her fetus? How should the healthcare professional reply when parents question why a compute tomographic (CT) scan of the head was not order for their 5-year-old child after a minor fall? A patient has ankylosing spondylitis. Which description of this condition by the health care professional is most accurate? 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? What is the effect of low plasma albumin? What initiates inflammation in acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis? What diagnosis is given to parents when their infant’s hip maintains contact with the acetabulum but is not well seated within the hip joint? A person has abnormally severe tooth decay and erosion of the tooth enamel. What problem should the health care professional assess the person for? A patient is admit to the hospital with multiple myeloma (MM). Which diagnostic test should the healthcare professional assess as the priority? In the majority of children experiencing delayed puberty, what is the problem cause by? What does the student learn distinguishes kwashiorkor from marasmus? Without prior exposure to an antigen, which cells are able to destroy some types of tumor cells and some virus-infected cells? A patient has chronic anemia associated with chronic renal failure. What substance does the healthcare professional tell the patient is need to treat this anemia? A patient has pernicious anemia and asks the healthcare professional to explain the disease. Which statement by the professional is most accurate? [Show Less]
What is the link between major depression and cortisol secretion? A patient has chronic anemia associated with chronic renal failure. What substance does ... [Show More] the healthcare professional tell the patient is needed to treat this anemia? What is the first indication of nephrotic syndrome in children? A patient is in the Emergency Department with heatstroke. What finding does the healthcare provider associate with this condition? Clinical manifestations that include irregular or heavy bleeding, the passage of large clots, and the depletion of iron stores support which diagnosis? The health care professional is caring for a person who has a pathologic fracture. The patient asks the professional to explain the condition. What response by the professional is best? A patient has a temporary displacement of two bones in a joint causing the bone surfaces to partially lose contact with each other. What treatment does the health care professional prepare the patient for? Cystic fibrosis is characterized by which symptom? An infant has gluten-sensitive enteropathy and the parents ask the healthcare professional to explain why the baby bruises so easily. The professional explains that the baby has which deficit? A healthcare professional advises a pregnant woman to add supplements of which nutrient to her diet to prevent birth defects? A mother reports that her young teens have voracious appetites. The healthcare professional would explain which hormone is linked to an increase in appetite during puberty? Why is nasal congestion a serious threat to young infants? A student studying osteomyelitis and asks for an explanation of the term sequestrum. What response by the professor is best? Which statement by the healthcare professional accurately describes childhood asthma? A patient has a spinal cord injury at C4. What should the healthcare professional assess as the priority in this patient? Which cells function to maintain bone matrix? To quickly assess a patient’s nervous system for dysfunction, what assessment should the healthcare professional perform as the priority? What is the effect of low plasma albumin? Which immunoglobulin (Ig) is present in childhood asthma? Which mother does the healthcare professional prepare to administer Rh immune globulin (Rho-GAM) to? A parent brings a 10-year-old child to the clinic and reports a mottled appearance to the skin and legs cramps when the child is in physical education class. Physical assessment is positive for upper extremity hypertension. What diagnostic testing or treatment does the healthcare professional prepare the family for? In order to help prevent a preadolescent girl from developing later cervical cancer, which virus does the healthcare professional recommend vaccination against to the parent? Which pain theory proposes that a balance of impulses conducted from the spinal cord to the higher centers in the central nervous system (CNS) modulates the transmission of pain? A newborn baby displays jaundice 20 hours after birth. What action by the healthcare professional is most appropriate? What causes the vasomotor flushes (hot flashes) that are associated with declining ovarian function with age? In acute hypothermia, what physiologic change shunts blood away from the colder skin to the body core in an effort to decrease heat loss? How does the epididymis become infected? What are the clinical manifestations of testicular cancer? A healthcare professional is discussing breastfeeding with a pregnant woman. Which beneficial substance does the professional tell the mother is found in breast milk? The disruption in cellular adhesion observed in bullous impetigo is caused by an exfoliative toxin related to which organism? A patient has been exposed to prolonged high environmental temperatures and now shows signs of dehydration, decreased plasma volumes, hypotension, decreased cardiac output, and tachycardia. What treatment does the healthcare professional prepare to administer to this patient? A woman who is positive for hepatitis B is in labor. What action by the healthcare professional is most appropriate? A healthcare professional is planning a community event to reduce risk of cerebrovascular accident (CVA) in high risk groups. Which group would the professional target as the priority? A pregnant woman is seen for the first time at 6 months’ gestation and has not taken prenatal vitamins. The healthcare professional educates the woman on the need for a blood test specifically to assess what substance? A healthcare professional is seeing a patient with suspected schizophrenia. For which prenatal occurrence should the professional assess? What congenital malformation is commonly linked to acute leukemia in children? Parents bring their 1-year-old child to the emergency department, reporting that the child has been irritable and pounding on her head, has projectile vomiting, and seems very sleepy for most of the last 3 days. What diagnostic testing does the healthcare professional prepare the child and parents for as the priority? A patient in the hospital has been receiving heparin injections. The platelet count on admission was 222,000/mm 3 and four days later is 113,000/mm 3. What action by the healthcare professional is best? A healthcare professional works with recent refugees. A mother brings in her children who have been diagnosed with iron deficiency anemia. What action by the professional is most appropriate? Which patient finding would lead the health care professional to assess the patient for inflammatory joint disease? A student asks the professor what the most common pathophysiologic process is that triggers aplastic anemia (AA). What response by the professor is most accurate? A student is learning about the pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). What information does the student clarify with a study partner as being correct? A patient in the healthcare clinic reports fatigue, weakness, and dyspnea, as well as pale conjunctiva of the eyes and brittle, concave nails. What assessment by the healthcare professional is most appropriate for the suspected anemia? A patient is 8 hours postoperative after a long orthopedic procedure. The student asks why this patient is at particular risk of developing thromboembolism. What response by the healthcare professional is best? A healthcare professional suspects a patient is brain dead. How would the professional assess for brain death? An adult patient has been hospitalizing with thrombocytopenia with a platelet count of 8000/mm 3. What action by the healthcare professional is most appropriate? A child with acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis is voiding smoky, brown-color urine and asks the healthcare professional to explain what causes it. What explanation by the professional is best? A patient has pernicious anemia and asks the healthcare professional to explain the disease. Which statement by the professional is most accurate? In immunoglobulin G (IgG) nephropathies such as glomerulonephritis, IgG is deposited in which location? A child has iron-deficiency anemia. In addition to iron supplements, what else does the healthcare professional educate the parents on giving the child? When are childhood cancers most often diagnose? Without prior exposure to an antigen, which cells are able to destroy some types of tumor cells and some virus-infected cells? A patient has hepatomegaly, bronze-colored skin, and cardiac dysrhythmias. What condition does the healthcare professional prepare to teach the patient about? 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? A healthcare professional is trying to lower a patient’s body temperature by convection. What action by the professional will accomplish this? 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? 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? A woman attempting to conceive tells the healthcare professional that she and her partner have intercourse when her basal body temperature (BBT) is around 37?C (98?F) without getting pregnant. What information does the professional give the woman? A student reads in a chart that a baby was born with an encephalocele. The student asks the healthcare professional to explain this condition. What explanation by the healthcare professional is best? A student asks the healthcare professional why researchers are trying to link specific genes to specific asthma phenotypes. What response by the professional is best? 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? The student wants to know how the clinical manifestations and onset of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) differ from those of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in adults. What answer by the healthcare professional is best? A child has Duchenne muscular dystrophy. What complication does the healthcare professional teach the parents is most important to control? A 9-year-old child has a blood pressure of 112/72 mmHg in the school nurse’s office. What action by the school nurse is most appropriate? An infant is brought to the emergency department by parents who report that the baby’s fontanels seem to be bulging outward. What action by the healthcare provider is most appropriate? What diagnosis is give to parents when their infant’s hip maintains contact with the acetabulum but is not well seated within the hip joint? The student asks the professor for a definition of orexigenic neurons. What description by the professor is most accurate? A patient is in the intensive care unit and has intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring. The patient’s ICP is 17 mmHg. The healthcare professional notes that the chart indicates the patient is now in stage 1 intracranial hypertension. What assessment finding does the professional association with this condition? 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? A man has balanitis. What action by the healthcare professional is most appropriate? Which condition is consistent with the cardiac defect of transposition of the great vessels? A newborn has meconium ileus. What diagnostic test does the healthcare professional advise the parents about? Which condition is consider a clinical cause of amenorrhea? The healthcare professional directs a student to assess a teen who has Osgood-Schlatter disease. What assessment finding does the student anticipate for this disorder? A healthcare professional is educating a community men’s group on symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The professional relates that most symptoms are a result of which pathophysiologic condition? A patient has been diagnose with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) and asks the healthcare professional to describe it. What description by the professional is most accurate? A child has cystic fibrosis (CF). Which medication does the healthcare professional teach the parents about? A woman diagnoses with trichomoniasis asks if her sexual partner should be treat as well. What is the appropriate response by the healthcare professional? A healthcare professional is caring for a patient diagnosed with aphasia. What action by the professional would be best in working with this patient? In which stage of syphilis would the following clinical manifestations be found: destructive skin, bone and soft tissue lesions, aneurysms, heart failure, and neurosyphilis? What is the most abundant class of plasma protein? A baby is born with myelomeningocele and needs urgent surgery to repair the defect. The parents want to take the baby home instead. What does the healthcare professional tell the parents about the purpose of this surgery? A student asks the health care professional why obese people are at higher risk for hypertension than non-obese individuals. What response by the professional is best? In the majority of children experiencing delayed puberty, what is the problem caused by? A patient has been diagnose with lithium toxicity. Which electrolyte imbalance does the healthcare professional correlate with this condition? A healthcare professional has educated a student on folic acid. Which statement by the student indicates that more teaching is needed? A patient had a seizure that consisted of impaired consciousness and the appearance of a dreamlike state. How does the healthcare professional chart this episode? A health care professional is caring for a patient admit to the hospital with severe anorexia. What action by the health care professional would be most important? Parents report their 3-week-old infant who eats well and has gained weight began to have projectile vomiting for no apparent reason. What treatment option does the healthcare professional prepare to educate the parents on? Prenatal exposure to diethylstilbestrol (DES) can result in which type of cancer? An infant has been diagnosed with intussusception and the student asks the healthcare professional to explain the condition. What explanation by the professional is most accurate? Local signs and symptoms of Hodgkin disease-related lymphadenopathy are a result of what? A woman has been diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome but is confuse because her pelvic ultrasound (US) was read as normal and did not show cysts. What response by the health care professional is most appropriate? A healthcare professional wants to volunteer for a community education project to help prevent spinal cord injury. What activity would the professional most likely volunteer for? A person has abnormally severe tooth decay and erosion of the tooth enamel. What problem should the health care professional assess the person for? What is the consequence of a splenectomy? A patient is admit to the hospital with multiple myeloma (MM). Which diagnostic test should the healthcare professional assess as the priority? A patient has been hospitalize with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). The patient asks how this could have occurred. What response by the healthcare professional is best? A parent asks the healthcare professional to explain why a child diagnosed with Tetralogy of Fallot squats frequently. What explanation by the professional is best? A patient is in status epilepticus. In addition to giving medication to stop the seizures, what would the healthcare professional place the highest priority on? [Show Less]
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