NURS 6501N Final Exam 1

NURS-6501N-58,Advanced Pathophysiology Question 1 A woman diagnosed with trichomoniasis asks if her sexual partner should be treated as well. What is the appropriate response by the healthcare professional? Question 2 1 out of 1 points 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? Question 3 1 out of 1 points 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? Question 4 1 out of 1 points When are childhood cancers most often diagnosed? Question 5 1 out of 1 points 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? • Question 6 1 out of 1 points What is the link between major depression and cortisol secretion? • Question 7 1 out of 1 points 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? • Question 8 1 out of 1 points 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? • Question 9 1 out of 1 points The disruption in cellular adhesion observed in bullous impetigo is caused by an exfoliative toxin related to which organism? • Question 10 1 out of 1 points 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? • Question 11 1 out of 1 points 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? • Question 12 1 out of 1 points 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? • Question 13 1 out of 1 points What are the clinical manifestations of testicular cancer? • Question 14 1 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? • Question 15 1 out of 1 points 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? • Question 16 1 out of 1 points Which statement by the healthcare professional accurately describes childhood asthma? • Question 17 1 out of 1 points A patient is in status epilepticus. In addition to giving medication to stop the seizures, what would the healthcare professional place highest priority on? • Question 18 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? • Question 19 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? • Question 20 1 out of 1 points What is the link between major depression and cortisol secretion? • Question 21 1 out of 1 points A student asks the professor to explain the jaundice that accompanies hemolytic anemia. Which statement is by the professor is most accurate? • Question 22 1 out of 1 points Which cells function to maintain bone matrix? • Question 23 1 out of 1 points A child has Duchenne muscular dystrophy and the parents want to know how this occurred. Which statement by the healthcare professional is most accurate? • Question 24 1 out of 1 points What is the role of thromboxane A (TXA 2) in the secretion stage of hemostasis? • Question 25 1 out of 1 points 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? • Question 26 1 out of 1 points A student studying osteomyelitis and asks for an explanation of the term sequestrum. What response by the professor is best? • Question 27 1 out of 1 points 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? • Question 28 1 out of 1 points A patient has been diagnosed with lithium toxicity. Which electrolyte imbalance does the healthcare professional correlate with this condition? • Question 29 1 out of 1 points 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? • Question 30 1 out of 1 points 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? • Question 31 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? • Question 32 1 out of 1 points What is the consequence of a splenectomy? • Question 33 1 out of 1 points Gait disturbances and instability are characteristic of which form of cerebral palsy? • Question 34 0 out of 1 points 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? • Question 35 1 out of 1 points 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? • Question 36 1 out of 1 points Local signs and symptoms of Hodgkin disease-related lymphadenopathy are a result of what? • Question 37 1 out of 1 points A patient is in the Emergency Department with heat stroke. What finding does the healthcare provider associate with this condition? Selected Absence of sweating despite a high core