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N300 EXAM 2: HEPATITIS EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
VERIFIED UPDATE 2025/2026
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The client is in the 1. Clay-colored stools and jaundice occur in the icteric
preicteric phase of phase of hepatitis.
hepatitis. Which 2. These signs/symptoms occur in the icteric phase of
signs/symptoms would hepatitis.
the nurse expect the 3. Fever subsides in the icteric phase, and the pain is in
client to exhibit during the right upper quadrant.
this phase? ***4. "Flu-like" symptoms are the first com- plaints
of the client in the preicteric phase of hepatitis,
1. Clay-colored stools which is the initial phase and may begin
and jaundice. abruptly or insidiously.
2. Normal appetite and
pruritus. TEST-TAKING HINT: The test taker must use anatomy
3. Being afebrile and knowledge in ruling out
left upper quadrant incorrect answers; "3" could be ruled out
pain. because the liver is in the right upper
4. Complaints of fatigue quadrant.
and diarrhea.
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Which type of hepatitis **1. The hepatitis A virus is in the stool of
is transmitted by the infected people up to two (2) weeks before
fecal-oral route via symptoms develop.
contaminated food, 2. Hepatitis B virus is spread through contact with
water, or direct infected blood and body fluids.
contact with an 3. Hepatitis C virus is transmitted through infected blood
infected and body fluids.
person? 4. Hepatitis D virus only causes infection in
people who are also infected with hepatitis
1. Hepatitis A. B or C.
2. Hepatitis B. TEST-TAKING HINT: This is a knowledge
3. Hepatitis C. question; the nurse must be aware of how the
4. Hepatitis D. various types of hepatitis virus are transmitted.
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