QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔ANS: A,C,D,E
Feedback:
SIADH occurs because there is too much Antidiuretic hormone which leads to over
hydration - this would cause an increase BP, edema, and bounding pulse. - ✔✔A
patient experienced a brain injury and was diagnosed with SIADH which of the following
symptoms would the nurse expect. this patient to have?
A) Crackles in the lungs
B) decreased BP
C) Excessive thirst
D) Hyponatremia
E) Low urine output
✔✔ANS: A, C - ✔✔A patient has been diagnosed with SIADAH. the nurse would
suspect which of the following to be used as a treatment for this patient? (Select all that
apply)
A) fluid restriction
B) Synthetic ADH
C) Give diuretics
D) Increase fluids
✔✔ANS: A,B,C,E - ✔✔A patient diagnosed Diabetes insipidus. The nurse would identify
which of the following as symptoms of this illness? (Select all that apply)
A) High urine output
B) Decrease peripheral pulse
C) Excessive thirst
D) Edema
E) Skin tenting
✔✔ANS: A,B,C
Feedback:
Everything slows down with hypothyroidism - ✔✔A patient has been diagnosed with
hypothyroidism. Which of the following symptoms would the nurse contribute to this
diagnosis?
A) dry course hair
B) Constipation
C) Brittle nails
D) tachycardia
E) frequent bowl movements
✔✔ANS: A,D, E
Feedback:
, With hyperthyroidism you will see everything speed up - ✔✔A patient has been
diagnosed with hyperthyroidism. Which of the following symptoms would the nurse
contribute to this diagnosis?
A) Exophthalmos
B) Constipation
C) Brittle nails
D) tachycardia
E) frequent bowl movements
✔✔ANS: C
Feedback:
The other treatments are for hyperthyroidism - ✔✔A patient has been diagnosed with
hypothyroidism. Which of the following treatments would a nurse expect for this patient?
A) radioactive iodine
B) PUT
C)Levothyroxine
D) Beta blockers
✔✔ANS: B
Feedback:
These decrease glucagon secretion, increase insulin secretion, inhibit gluconeogenesis
An alpha glucoside: these decrease absorption
A SGL2 T2: inhibit reasorbsorption - ✔✔A patient has just been diagnosed with type 2
diabetes. The physician has prescribed an oral antidiabetic agent that will inhibit the
production of glucose by the liver and thereby aid in the control of blood glucose. What
type of oral antidiabetic agent did the physician prescribe for this patient?
A) A sulfonylurea
B) A DDP-4 inhibitor
C) A SGL2 T2
D) An alpha glucoside
✔✔ANS: B - ✔✔A medical nurse is caring for a patient with type 1 diabetes. The
patients medication administration record includes the administration of regular insulin
three times daily. Knowing that the patients lunch tray will arrive at 11:45, when should
the nurse administer the patients insulin?
A) 10:45
B) 11:15
C) 11:45
D) 11:50
✔✔ANS: A - ✔✔A diabetes nurse educator is teaching a group of patients with type 1
diabetes about sick day rules. What guideline applies to periods of illness in a diabetic
patient?