EXAM 1- NURS 532 Questions With Complete Solutions
_____is at its largest relative to the rest of the body shortly after
birth and persists through the 1st year Correct Answers thymus
: Hormonal changes related to puberty increases risk for Correct
Answers acne
: What does skin turgor reflect? Correct Answers Skin elasticity
· Affected males: no affected sons, all daughter affected
· Affected carrier females: 50% chance of passing condition
· Affected females about 2x as common as affected males
Correct Answers dominated x linked
· Family history has been shown to be a major risk factor for
many chronic diseases such as CVD, DM, cancer, mental illness
and asthma Correct Answers common complex disease
· Heard over healthy lung tissue
· Low-pitch, low-intensity
· Soft, short expirations
· Heard over healthy lung tissue
· Most prominent in a thin person/child Correct Answers
vesicular breath sounds
· Heard over major bronchi and over right upper posterior lung
field
· Moderate in pitch/intensity
· Expiration= inspiration Correct Answers bronchovesicular
breath sounds
,· Heard over trachea
· Highest in pitch/intensity
· Loud and long expirations
· Sometimes a bit longer than inspiration Correct Answers
bronchial breath sounds
· Males more often affected than females
· Heterozygous females are typically unaffected but may express
trait with variable severity
· Mutations are transmitted from an affected male to all of his
daughters
· Mutations are transmitted through carrier females
· Carrier females have 50% chance of passing the condition to
their sons Correct Answers recessive x-linked
· Ovum (not sperm) that is the source for a large proportion of
mitochondrial in a newly fertilized zygote
· A mother carrying a mitochondrial mutation will pass it on to
ALL of her offspring
· A father carrying a mitochondrial mutation does NOT pass it
on to offspring Correct Answers mitochondrial inheritance
§ Affect individuals in every generation
§ Every affected child has affected parent
§ Any child of an affected individual has 50% chance of
inheriting the trait
§ Unaffected family members do not pass to their children
§ Males and females are equally likely to be affected Correct
Answers autosomal dominant
, § Males/females = affected
§ The change 2 carrier parents will have another/ an affected
child in ¼ (25%)
§ Parents of an affected individual are obligate carriers
§ Carrier: an individual who has one copy of gene and one copy
of typical gene
§ The status of having 2 different forms of one gene is referred
to as heterozygous
§ Homozygous: when both copies of the gene are identical
Correct Answers autosomal recessive
A patient smokes two ppd for 10 years and one ppd for 15 years.
How many pack years is this? Correct Answers 35 years
[(2ppdx10yrs)+(1ppdx15yrs)=35 pack years]
A patient's wife, who is also their caregiver, becomes irritable
when they need more help. How should a nurse respond to the
patient? Correct Answers Ask how they feel when their wife
becomes irritated
an infants head diameter is ____ than the chest diameter Correct
Answers larger
anterior fontanel closes at Correct Answers 12-15mo
Are you and your partner related in any other way besides
marriage Correct Answers consanguinity
Assessment finding consistent with epiglottitis in children
Correct Answers Difficulty swallowing
_____is at its largest relative to the rest of the body shortly after
birth and persists through the 1st year Correct Answers thymus
: Hormonal changes related to puberty increases risk for Correct
Answers acne
: What does skin turgor reflect? Correct Answers Skin elasticity
· Affected males: no affected sons, all daughter affected
· Affected carrier females: 50% chance of passing condition
· Affected females about 2x as common as affected males
Correct Answers dominated x linked
· Family history has been shown to be a major risk factor for
many chronic diseases such as CVD, DM, cancer, mental illness
and asthma Correct Answers common complex disease
· Heard over healthy lung tissue
· Low-pitch, low-intensity
· Soft, short expirations
· Heard over healthy lung tissue
· Most prominent in a thin person/child Correct Answers
vesicular breath sounds
· Heard over major bronchi and over right upper posterior lung
field
· Moderate in pitch/intensity
· Expiration= inspiration Correct Answers bronchovesicular
breath sounds
,· Heard over trachea
· Highest in pitch/intensity
· Loud and long expirations
· Sometimes a bit longer than inspiration Correct Answers
bronchial breath sounds
· Males more often affected than females
· Heterozygous females are typically unaffected but may express
trait with variable severity
· Mutations are transmitted from an affected male to all of his
daughters
· Mutations are transmitted through carrier females
· Carrier females have 50% chance of passing the condition to
their sons Correct Answers recessive x-linked
· Ovum (not sperm) that is the source for a large proportion of
mitochondrial in a newly fertilized zygote
· A mother carrying a mitochondrial mutation will pass it on to
ALL of her offspring
· A father carrying a mitochondrial mutation does NOT pass it
on to offspring Correct Answers mitochondrial inheritance
§ Affect individuals in every generation
§ Every affected child has affected parent
§ Any child of an affected individual has 50% chance of
inheriting the trait
§ Unaffected family members do not pass to their children
§ Males and females are equally likely to be affected Correct
Answers autosomal dominant
, § Males/females = affected
§ The change 2 carrier parents will have another/ an affected
child in ¼ (25%)
§ Parents of an affected individual are obligate carriers
§ Carrier: an individual who has one copy of gene and one copy
of typical gene
§ The status of having 2 different forms of one gene is referred
to as heterozygous
§ Homozygous: when both copies of the gene are identical
Correct Answers autosomal recessive
A patient smokes two ppd for 10 years and one ppd for 15 years.
How many pack years is this? Correct Answers 35 years
[(2ppdx10yrs)+(1ppdx15yrs)=35 pack years]
A patient's wife, who is also their caregiver, becomes irritable
when they need more help. How should a nurse respond to the
patient? Correct Answers Ask how they feel when their wife
becomes irritated
an infants head diameter is ____ than the chest diameter Correct
Answers larger
anterior fontanel closes at Correct Answers 12-15mo
Are you and your partner related in any other way besides
marriage Correct Answers consanguinity
Assessment finding consistent with epiglottitis in children
Correct Answers Difficulty swallowing
