NUR 425 Exam 1 Practice Questions and Correct Answers
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Course
NUR 425
Institution
NUR 425
What are classic signs and characteristics of breast cancer? Signs: -pitting edema -retracted nipple and areola -peau d' orange (Skin of an orange) Characteristics: -hard -non-mobile
What is palpable and needs to be investigated in breast cancer? The supraclavicular node
Who is at risk for breast...
NUR 425 Exam 1 Practice Questions and
Correct Answers
What are classic signs and characteristics of breast cancer? ✅Signs:
-pitting edema
-retracted nipple and areola
-peau d' orange (Skin of an orange)
Characteristics:
-hard
-non-mobile
What is palpable and needs to be investigated in breast cancer? ✅The supraclavicular
node
Who is at risk for breast cancer? ✅genetic, hormonal, environmental, smokers,
antiperspirants with cancer causing agents
what do you do before a biopsy with breast cancer? ✅-stop bleeding meds (NSAIDs,
vitamin E, eliquis, garlic, ginkgo bilidoba, warfarin)
-NPO after midnight
What is the patient at risk for with tamoxifen? ✅blood clots, increased vaginal
bleeding, hot flashes
What do you worry about when a patient is on tamoxifen(raloxifene)? ✅DBT, stroke,
pulmonary emboli, MI
What are post-op risks with breast cancer? ✅lymphedema, hematomas, seroma,
infection
What do you do with double mastectomy? ✅designate one side for blood pressure
When can a patient shower when they have drains? ✅When the drains are removed
When reconstruction of the breasts are performed what is contraindicated?
✅showering
Leukemia ✅cancer of white blood cells; lymphocytes, neutrophils
Lymphomas ✅cancers of the immune system; neoplasms of lymphoid tissue derived
from B lymphocytes
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