NURS 6501 ADVANCED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY EXAM WITH
ANSWERS
• Question 1
1 out of 1 points
A patient has defective secretion of the intrinsic factor leading to anemia. What treatment
option does the healthcare professional discuss with the patient?
Selected Answer: Vitamin B 12 injections initially given once a week.
• Question 2
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?
Selected Answer: 30
years
• Question 3
1 out of 1 points
A healthcare professional in an urban clinic is seeing a patient who has iron deficiency anemia
, NURS 6501 ADVANCED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY EXAM WITH
ANSWERS
(IDA). What question by the professional is most appropriate to assess for the cause of IDA?
Selected Answer: 1cHave you ever noticed any blood in your stool? 1d
• Question 4
, NURS 6501 ADVANCED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY EXAM WITH
ANSWERS
1 out of 1 points
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?
Selecte Research suggests that repeated CT scans can increase the risk of
d developing brain cancer.
Answer
:
• Question 5
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?
Selecte Bacteria are walled off by macrophages and T lymphocytes; consequently, the
d antibiotics cannot penetrate the infected area.
Answer
:
• Question 6
1 out of 1 points
Which statement by the professor best describes acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)?
Selecte :
d
Answer
, NURS 6501 ADVANCED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY EXAM WITH
ANSWERS
A ary disease characterized by severe hypoxemia, decreased pulmonary
pulmon compliance, and the presence of bilateral infiltrates on chest x-ray imaging
• Question 7
1 out of 1 points
What is the effect of low plasma albumin?
Selecte Osmotic pressure decreases; thus water moves from the capillaries to the
d interstitium.
Answer
:
• Question 8
1 out of 1 points
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.
• Question 9
0 out of 1 points
ANSWERS
• Question 1
1 out of 1 points
A patient has defective secretion of the intrinsic factor leading to anemia. What treatment
option does the healthcare professional discuss with the patient?
Selected Answer: Vitamin B 12 injections initially given once a week.
• Question 2
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?
Selected Answer: 30
years
• Question 3
1 out of 1 points
A healthcare professional in an urban clinic is seeing a patient who has iron deficiency anemia
, NURS 6501 ADVANCED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY EXAM WITH
ANSWERS
(IDA). What question by the professional is most appropriate to assess for the cause of IDA?
Selected Answer: 1cHave you ever noticed any blood in your stool? 1d
• Question 4
, NURS 6501 ADVANCED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY EXAM WITH
ANSWERS
1 out of 1 points
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?
Selecte Research suggests that repeated CT scans can increase the risk of
d developing brain cancer.
Answer
:
• Question 5
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?
Selecte Bacteria are walled off by macrophages and T lymphocytes; consequently, the
d antibiotics cannot penetrate the infected area.
Answer
:
• Question 6
1 out of 1 points
Which statement by the professor best describes acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)?
Selecte :
d
Answer
, NURS 6501 ADVANCED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY EXAM WITH
ANSWERS
A ary disease characterized by severe hypoxemia, decreased pulmonary
pulmon compliance, and the presence of bilateral infiltrates on chest x-ray imaging
• Question 7
1 out of 1 points
What is the effect of low plasma albumin?
Selecte Osmotic pressure decreases; thus water moves from the capillaries to the
d interstitium.
Answer
:
• Question 8
1 out of 1 points
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.
• Question 9
0 out of 1 points
