When completing this exam, did you comply with Walden University's Code of Conduct including the expectations for academic integrity?
Selected Ye
Answer: s
A patient is in the intensive care unit and has intercranial pressure (ICP) monitoring. The patient's ICP is 17 mmHg. The healthcare pro...
• Question 1
0 out of 0 points
When completing this exam, did you comply with Walden University's Code of Conduct
including the expectations for academic integrity?
Selected Ye
Answer: s
• Question 2
1 out of 1 points
A patient is in the intensive care unit and has intercranial pressure (ICP) monitoring. The
patient's ICP is 17 mmHg. The healthcare professional notes that the chart indicates the
patient is now in stage 1 intracranial hypertension. What assessment finding does the
professional associate with this condition?
Selected No significant change in ICP
Answer: readings
• Question 3
1 out of 1 points
A preschool teacher notices a child who has burrows on the hands that are several
millimeters to 1 cm long, papules, and vesicular lesions. What other assessment finding
would help the teacher determine the type of infestation the child has?
Selected Ask the child if itching occurs especially
Answer: at night.
• Question 4
1 out of 1 points
A child with acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis is voiding smoky, brown-colored
urine and asks the healthcare professional to explain what causes it. What explanation
by the professional is best?
Selected Presence of red blood
Answer: cells
• Question 5
0 out of 1 points
The disruption in cellular adhesion observed in bullous impetigo is caused by an
exfoliative toxin related to which organism?
Selected Escherichia
Answer: coli
• Question 6
1 out of 1 points
, A patient has pernicious anemia and asks the healthcare professional to explain the
disease. Which statement by the professional is most accurate?
Selected Your body cannot absorb
Answer: vitamin B 12.
• Question 7
0 out of 1 points
A baby is born with a myelomeningocele and needs urgent surgery to repair the defect.
The parents want to take the baby home instead. What does the healthcare professional
tell the parents about the purpose of this surgery?
Selected 1cPrompt surgery is needed to prevent total paralysis later
Answer: on. 1d
• Question 8
1 out of 1 points
A child has Duchenne muscular dystrophy. What complication does the healthcare
professional teach the parents is most important to control?
Selected Respiratory
Answer: infection
• Question 9
1 out of 1 points
In acute hypothermia, what physiologic change shunts blood away from the colder skin
to the body core in an effort to decrease heat loss?
Selected Peripheral
Answer: vasoconstriction
• Question 10
1 out of 1 points
A patient has a spinal cord injury at C4. What should the healthcare professional assess
as the priority in this patient?
Selected Respirations
Answer:
• Question 11
1 out of 1 points
Local signs and symptoms of Hodgkin disease-related lymphadenopathy are a result of
what?
Selected Pressure and
, Answer: obstruction
• Question 12
1 out of 1 points
Parents report their 3-week-old infant who eats well and has gained weight began to
have projectile vomiting for no apparent reason. What treatment option does the
healthcare professional prepare to educate the parents on?
Selected Corrective
Answer: surgery
• Question 13
0 out of 1 points
What does the student learn distinguishes kwashiorkor from marasmus?
Selected All nutrients, proteins, fats, and carbohydrates are reduced in
Answer: kwashiorkor.
• Question 14
1 out of 1 points
A patient has primary immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) and is hospitalized after
a bleeding episode. What treatment does the healthcare provider anticipate being
ordered for this patient?
Selected Infusion of
Answer: IVIG
• Question 15
0 out of 1 points
A healthcare professional is caring for a patient who has a spinal cord injury at T5. The
patient exhibits severe hypertension, a heart rate of 32 beats/min, and sweating above
the spinal cord lesion. How does the professional chart this event?
Selected Parasympathetic
Answer: dysreflexia
• Question 16
0 out of 1 points
A patient has damage to the lower pons and medulla. What finding does the healthcare
professional associate with this injury?
Selected Extension response of the upper and lower
Answer: extremities
• Question 17
1 out of 1 points
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