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HESI RN PATHOPHYSIOLOGY EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS NEWEST 2025 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 500
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+||BRAND
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A school nurse has identified a student with noticeable loss of
lean tissues and muscle mass. More than likely, this is caused by
protein- calorie malnutrition. The nurse should ask the student if
he is experiencing which of the following clinical manifestations
that helps confirm this diagnosis?
A) Respiratory muscle stimulation
B) Excessive blood cell production
C) Diarrhea
D) Increased cardiac contractility - ANSWER-
Ans: C Feedback:
Rationale: Protein-calorie malnutrition results in skeletal
muscle loss and diarrhea. This type of malnutrition is also
characterized by respiratory muscle weakness and blood cell
loss that impairs the immune response.
A homeless client asks, "Why can't I get this wound on my foot
to heal?" Knowing that the client is not receiving good nutrition
on a regular basis, the nurse will reply:
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A) "Maybe if you could come to the clinic every day, we can
help you change your dressing."
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B) "Right now your immune system is decreased because you
are not eating a balanced diet."
C) "Maybe if you could find a place to sleep that is cleaner
than where you usually sleep that will help."
D) "We just need to make sure you are getting the right
antibiotics." - ANSWER- Ans: B
Feedback:
Rationale: As protein is lost from the liver, hepatic synthesis
of proteins declines, and plasma protein levels decrease.
There also is a decrease in immune cells. Wound healing is
poor, and the body is unable to fight off infection because of
multiple immunologic malfunctions throughout the body.
At the cellular level, cardiac muscle cells respond to an increase
in ventricular volume to the point of overload by: Select all that
apply.
A) Elongating the cardiac muscle cells
B) Thickening of the individual myocytes
C) Replicating the myofibrils
D) Decreasing the ventricular wall thickness
E) Symmetrically widening and lengthening the
hypertrophy - ANSWER- Ans: A, D
Feedback:
Rationale: At the cellular level, cardiac muscle cells respond
to stimuli from stress placed on the ventricular wall by
pressure and volume overload by initiating several different
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processes that lead to hypertrophy. With ventricular volume
overload, the increase in wall stress leads to replication of
myofibrils in series, elongation of the
HESI RN PATHOPHYSIOLOGY EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS NEWEST 2025 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 500
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+||BRAND
NEW!!
A school nurse has identified a student with noticeable loss of
lean tissues and muscle mass. More than likely, this is caused by
protein- calorie malnutrition. The nurse should ask the student if
he is experiencing which of the following clinical manifestations
that helps confirm this diagnosis?
A) Respiratory muscle stimulation
B) Excessive blood cell production
C) Diarrhea
D) Increased cardiac contractility - ANSWER-
Ans: C Feedback:
Rationale: Protein-calorie malnutrition results in skeletal
muscle loss and diarrhea. This type of malnutrition is also
characterized by respiratory muscle weakness and blood cell
loss that impairs the immune response.
A homeless client asks, "Why can't I get this wound on my foot
to heal?" Knowing that the client is not receiving good nutrition
on a regular basis, the nurse will reply:
,2|Page
A) "Maybe if you could come to the clinic every day, we can
help you change your dressing."
,3|Page
B) "Right now your immune system is decreased because you
are not eating a balanced diet."
C) "Maybe if you could find a place to sleep that is cleaner
than where you usually sleep that will help."
D) "We just need to make sure you are getting the right
antibiotics." - ANSWER- Ans: B
Feedback:
Rationale: As protein is lost from the liver, hepatic synthesis
of proteins declines, and plasma protein levels decrease.
There also is a decrease in immune cells. Wound healing is
poor, and the body is unable to fight off infection because of
multiple immunologic malfunctions throughout the body.
At the cellular level, cardiac muscle cells respond to an increase
in ventricular volume to the point of overload by: Select all that
apply.
A) Elongating the cardiac muscle cells
B) Thickening of the individual myocytes
C) Replicating the myofibrils
D) Decreasing the ventricular wall thickness
E) Symmetrically widening and lengthening the
hypertrophy - ANSWER- Ans: A, D
Feedback:
Rationale: At the cellular level, cardiac muscle cells respond
to stimuli from stress placed on the ventricular wall by
pressure and volume overload by initiating several different
, 4|Page
processes that lead to hypertrophy. With ventricular volume
overload, the increase in wall stress leads to replication of
myofibrils in series, elongation of the
