NURS 3304 Unit 1 Exam Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update 2026/2027
Signs - Answers fever, cough, change in pupil size, swollen arm, high blood pressure, abnormal
blood test, facial flushing, bleeding, rash, bruising
Symptoms - Answers depression, headache, loss of taste and smell, muscle aches
Hypertrophy - Answers Billy Rubin lifts weights regularly and develops larger biceps.
Atrophy - Answers Candi Barr has her cast removed from her left calf and notices that her left
calf is smaller than her right calf.
Hyperplasia - Answers After a partial hepatectomy, Doug Graves' liver has regenerated.
Hyperplasia - Answers Wendy Storm is pregnant and tells her mother, Hazel Nutt, that she
thinks she is having twins because her breasts are "really large"
Metaplasia - Answers Joe Kerr has smoked 2 packs a day of cigarettes a day for 30 years. The
columnar epithelium in his bronchi have been replaced by stratified squamous epithelium.
Hyperplasia - Answers Lily Pond has warts on her feet.
Diffusion - Answers LB is a 68-year-old man who is suffering from diabetes and hypertension.
He is being admitted to the hospital with an elevated K+ level (hyperkalemia) and a low calcium
level (hypocalcemia).
LB is getting started on dialysis emergently because of the elevated K_ level. Dialysis works
through the passive movement of solutes across a semi-permeable membrane. This method of
passive transport is called _________________.
Case study - Answers TJ was lifting a heavy piece of furniture when he experienced crushing
pain in his chest, began sweating heavily and was nauseated. His wife drove him to the hospital,
where he was diagnosed with a myocardial infarction (heart attack) and given intravenous drugs
to dissolve a clot that was obstruction a major coronary artery. after his hospitalization, TJ's
doctor told him that some of his heart muscle had died.
1. Ischemia
2. Hypoxia
3. ATP
4. Membranes
5. Oxygen - Answers 1. TJ's myocytes were initially injured by _______.
Signs - Answers fever, cough, change in pupil size, swollen arm, high blood pressure, abnormal
blood test, facial flushing, bleeding, rash, bruising
Symptoms - Answers depression, headache, loss of taste and smell, muscle aches
Hypertrophy - Answers Billy Rubin lifts weights regularly and develops larger biceps.
Atrophy - Answers Candi Barr has her cast removed from her left calf and notices that her left
calf is smaller than her right calf.
Hyperplasia - Answers After a partial hepatectomy, Doug Graves' liver has regenerated.
Hyperplasia - Answers Wendy Storm is pregnant and tells her mother, Hazel Nutt, that she
thinks she is having twins because her breasts are "really large"
Metaplasia - Answers Joe Kerr has smoked 2 packs a day of cigarettes a day for 30 years. The
columnar epithelium in his bronchi have been replaced by stratified squamous epithelium.
Hyperplasia - Answers Lily Pond has warts on her feet.
Diffusion - Answers LB is a 68-year-old man who is suffering from diabetes and hypertension.
He is being admitted to the hospital with an elevated K+ level (hyperkalemia) and a low calcium
level (hypocalcemia).
LB is getting started on dialysis emergently because of the elevated K_ level. Dialysis works
through the passive movement of solutes across a semi-permeable membrane. This method of
passive transport is called _________________.
Case study - Answers TJ was lifting a heavy piece of furniture when he experienced crushing
pain in his chest, began sweating heavily and was nauseated. His wife drove him to the hospital,
where he was diagnosed with a myocardial infarction (heart attack) and given intravenous drugs
to dissolve a clot that was obstruction a major coronary artery. after his hospitalization, TJ's
doctor told him that some of his heart muscle had died.
1. Ischemia
2. Hypoxia
3. ATP
4. Membranes
5. Oxygen - Answers 1. TJ's myocytes were initially injured by _______.
