NSG5003: Advanced Pathophysiology
NSG5003 WEEK 11 2025 LATEST FINAL EXAM SOUTH
UNIVERSITY ACCURATE SPRING-SUMMER TERM
GRADED A @QUESTION WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
A student reads in a chart that a child has been diagnosed with
mixed precocious puberty and asks for an explanation. What
explanation by the healthcare professional is most accurate?
What early puberty has signs of physical and hormonal
abnormalities
A woman attempting to conceive tells the healthcare
professional that she and her partner have intercourse when her
basal body temperature (BBT) is around 37˚C (98˚F) without
getting pregnant. What information does the professional give
the woman?
Temperature alone is not the most accurate way to predict
ovulation
,NSG5003: Advanced Pathophysiology
A student reads in a chart that a baby was born with an
encephalocele. The student asks the healthcare professional to
explain this condition. What explanation by the healthcare
professional is best?
A herniation or protrusion of brain and meninges through a
defect in the skull
A student asks the healthcare professional why researchers are
trying to link specific genes to specific asthma phenotypes. What
response by the professional is best?
It can lead to personalized approaches to treatment.
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?
30 years
,NSG5003: Advanced Pathophysiology
The student wants to know how the clinical manifestations and
onset of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) differ from those of
rheumatoid
arthritis (RA) in adults. What answer by the healthcare
professional is best?
JIA predominantly affects large joints.
A child has Duchenne muscular dystrophy. What complication
does the healthcare professional teach the parents is most
important to control?
Respiratory infection
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?
Note the normal finding in the child's records.
, NSG5003: Advanced Pathophysiology
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?
Determine how much fluid the baby
had in the last 24 hours.
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?
Subluxated hip
The student asks the professor for a definition of orexigenic
neurons. What description by the professor is most accurate?
Promote appetite and stimulate eating
NSG5003 WEEK 11 2025 LATEST FINAL EXAM SOUTH
UNIVERSITY ACCURATE SPRING-SUMMER TERM
GRADED A @QUESTION WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
A student reads in a chart that a child has been diagnosed with
mixed precocious puberty and asks for an explanation. What
explanation by the healthcare professional is most accurate?
What early puberty has signs of physical and hormonal
abnormalities
A woman attempting to conceive tells the healthcare
professional that she and her partner have intercourse when her
basal body temperature (BBT) is around 37˚C (98˚F) without
getting pregnant. What information does the professional give
the woman?
Temperature alone is not the most accurate way to predict
ovulation
,NSG5003: Advanced Pathophysiology
A student reads in a chart that a baby was born with an
encephalocele. The student asks the healthcare professional to
explain this condition. What explanation by the healthcare
professional is best?
A herniation or protrusion of brain and meninges through a
defect in the skull
A student asks the healthcare professional why researchers are
trying to link specific genes to specific asthma phenotypes. What
response by the professional is best?
It can lead to personalized approaches to treatment.
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?
30 years
,NSG5003: Advanced Pathophysiology
The student wants to know how the clinical manifestations and
onset of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) differ from those of
rheumatoid
arthritis (RA) in adults. What answer by the healthcare
professional is best?
JIA predominantly affects large joints.
A child has Duchenne muscular dystrophy. What complication
does the healthcare professional teach the parents is most
important to control?
Respiratory infection
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?
Note the normal finding in the child's records.
, NSG5003: Advanced Pathophysiology
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?
Determine how much fluid the baby
had in the last 24 hours.
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?
Subluxated hip
The student asks the professor for a definition of orexigenic
neurons. What description by the professor is most accurate?
Promote appetite and stimulate eating
