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NRSG258 Questions with Correct
Answers for Specific Exam Mail
Consent must be (5)
Ans: - voluntary
- specific
- informed
- legal capacity
- current
Legal Capacity
Ans: 18 years old
Advance Care Directive
Ans: legal documents outline care person wishes to
receive if they no longer have capacity to make their
own decisions
Factors affecting Legal Capacity (5)
Pretest - Stuvia US
,2
Ans: - unconscious
- intellectual disability (e.g. dementia)
- brain injury (depends on degree)
- emergency
- child
Doctrine of Necessity/Emergency
Ans: in emergency where patient cannot consent,
reasonable treatment to save life or prevent serious injury
or death can be administered
Signs of Inflammation (5)
Ans: - redness
- heat
- pain
- swelling
- loss of function
Chronic Inflammation
Pretest - Stuvia US
,3
Ans: >2 weeks with increased purulent discharge and
poor wound healing
Malignant Hyperthermia
Ans: rare genetic condition > treat with dantrolene
Benefits of Fever (5)
Ans: - improves immune function
- increased release of cytokines
- increased T and B cell activity
- increased phagocytosis
- decreased nutrients for bacteria
Risks of Fever (4)
Ans: - stress on body
- brain damage is sustained >41 degrees
- death >43 degrees
- febrile seizures >39 degrees
Acute Pain
Pretest - Stuvia US
, 4
Ans: productive and occurs immediately after tissue
damage
Chronic Pain
Ans: disease state that is maladaptive, persistent and has
no defensive or useful purpose due to continuous
transmission of pain in nerves that transmit pain
Chronic Pain includes (5)
Ans: - neuropathic (MS)
- inflammatory (arthritis)
- pathologic (cancer)
- allodynia (from non-painful stimulus)
- hyperalgesia (increased sensitivity to pain)
Innate (non-specific) defences
Ans: those you're born with (intact skin)
Adaptive (specific) immunity
Pretest - Stuvia US
NRSG258 Questions with Correct
Answers for Specific Exam Mail
Consent must be (5)
Ans: - voluntary
- specific
- informed
- legal capacity
- current
Legal Capacity
Ans: 18 years old
Advance Care Directive
Ans: legal documents outline care person wishes to
receive if they no longer have capacity to make their
own decisions
Factors affecting Legal Capacity (5)
Pretest - Stuvia US
,2
Ans: - unconscious
- intellectual disability (e.g. dementia)
- brain injury (depends on degree)
- emergency
- child
Doctrine of Necessity/Emergency
Ans: in emergency where patient cannot consent,
reasonable treatment to save life or prevent serious injury
or death can be administered
Signs of Inflammation (5)
Ans: - redness
- heat
- pain
- swelling
- loss of function
Chronic Inflammation
Pretest - Stuvia US
,3
Ans: >2 weeks with increased purulent discharge and
poor wound healing
Malignant Hyperthermia
Ans: rare genetic condition > treat with dantrolene
Benefits of Fever (5)
Ans: - improves immune function
- increased release of cytokines
- increased T and B cell activity
- increased phagocytosis
- decreased nutrients for bacteria
Risks of Fever (4)
Ans: - stress on body
- brain damage is sustained >41 degrees
- death >43 degrees
- febrile seizures >39 degrees
Acute Pain
Pretest - Stuvia US
, 4
Ans: productive and occurs immediately after tissue
damage
Chronic Pain
Ans: disease state that is maladaptive, persistent and has
no defensive or useful purpose due to continuous
transmission of pain in nerves that transmit pain
Chronic Pain includes (5)
Ans: - neuropathic (MS)
- inflammatory (arthritis)
- pathologic (cancer)
- allodynia (from non-painful stimulus)
- hyperalgesia (increased sensitivity to pain)
Innate (non-specific) defences
Ans: those you're born with (intact skin)
Adaptive (specific) immunity
Pretest - Stuvia US
