Nur611 Exam 1 – with 15 Questions and Proper Answers 2024/2025
1. Where are the Red blood cells produced?: Bone marrow
Most sternum, vertebrae, pelvis, ribs, and cranial bones
2. What keeps the destruction and production in balance?: Feedback loop involving
erythropoietin
3. What is the most type of anemia?: Iron deficiency anemia
4. What is the protein that stores iron?: Ferritin
(Iron is toxic to the body without this)
5. What are the erythroid precursors (the baby red blood cells)?: Reticulocytes
6. If a red blood cell has a nucleus it is abnormal. True or False: True
7. WBC are the only cell with a _________?: Nucleus
8. Platelets live for how long?: 8-10 days
9. Granulocytes live for how many hours in the blood?: 4-5
10. Monocytes live for how many hours in the blood?: 10-20
11. Lymphocytes are what forms diabetic cysts, these can live for how long?:
Months
12. Neutrophils are the most prevalent WBC, it fights?: Bacterial infections
13. Lymphocytes are associated with viral infections, you would expect to see?:
Lymphocytes bode enlargement
14. is the functional inability of the blood to supply the tissue with adequate
O2 for proper metabolic function.: Anemia (not enough RBC's)
15. Your patient was anemic, so you started the patient on ferrous sulfate
(iron). What should you monitor?: the reticulocyte count (baby RBC's)
1. Where are the Red blood cells produced?: Bone marrow
Most sternum, vertebrae, pelvis, ribs, and cranial bones
2. What keeps the destruction and production in balance?: Feedback loop involving
erythropoietin
3. What is the most type of anemia?: Iron deficiency anemia
4. What is the protein that stores iron?: Ferritin
(Iron is toxic to the body without this)
5. What are the erythroid precursors (the baby red blood cells)?: Reticulocytes
6. If a red blood cell has a nucleus it is abnormal. True or False: True
7. WBC are the only cell with a _________?: Nucleus
8. Platelets live for how long?: 8-10 days
9. Granulocytes live for how many hours in the blood?: 4-5
10. Monocytes live for how many hours in the blood?: 10-20
11. Lymphocytes are what forms diabetic cysts, these can live for how long?:
Months
12. Neutrophils are the most prevalent WBC, it fights?: Bacterial infections
13. Lymphocytes are associated with viral infections, you would expect to see?:
Lymphocytes bode enlargement
14. is the functional inability of the blood to supply the tissue with adequate
O2 for proper metabolic function.: Anemia (not enough RBC's)
15. Your patient was anemic, so you started the patient on ferrous sulfate
(iron). What should you monitor?: the reticulocyte count (baby RBC's)
