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Which of the following is a symptom? A.weak grip strength B.crackles C.diaphoresis D.pain d. Pain A patient has a heart rate of 53 beats per minute. This is considered what? A. Bradycardia B.tachypnea C.tachycardia D. Hypertension a. Bradycardia The term iatrogenic refers to which condition when ...

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NUR 226 EXAM 1 PRACTICE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Which of the following is a symptom?
A.weak grip strength
B.crackles
C.diaphoresis
D.pain ✅d. Pain

A patient has a heart rate of 53 beats per minute. This is considered what?
A. Bradycardia
B.tachypnea
C.tachycardia
D. Hypertension ✅a. Bradycardia

The term iatrogenic refers to which condition when associated with types of disease?
A. Worsening of the disease
B. Unknown cause
C. Caused by treatment
D. Likelihood of recovery ✅c. Caused by treatment

Some drugs have the ability to cross the placenta and have an effect on the fetus.
Which drug would be most concerning to the nurse?
A. Prenatal vitamins
B.nsaids
C. Pharmacogenomic
D. Teratogens ✅d.teratogens

A medication your patient is taking is a substrate of the cyp-450 system. If they start
taking a second drug that induces the cyp-450 system what can happen?
A. Decreased effect of the initial drug
B. A decreased action of the second drug
C. Toxic effects of the initial drug
D. No change to the initial drug function ✅a. Decreased effect of the initial drug

The functions of immunity include which of the following?
Homeostasis, filters blood, defense, surveillance ✅homeostasis, defense, surveillance

The nurse is documenting the exudate from a client's abscess positive for mrsa. What
would be the most likely finding for this exudate?
A. Sersoanguineous
B. Purulent
C.serous

,D.hemorrhagic ✅b.purulent

The nurse is reviewing a cbc with differential for a client with an acute viral infection.
Which lab finding most likely supports the client's condition? ✅increased lymphocytes

What are the three different types of disease? ✅idiopathic, iatrogenic, exacerbation

What is pathophysiology? ✅study of disease, injury, and changes in physiology of the
body

Pathology ✅laboratory study of cells and tissues

Disease ✅disruption of homeostasis

What is homeostasis? ✅tendency to maintain an equilibrium

What is homeostasis in terms of the body? ✅body and organs maintain steady state in
order to function in normal range

What are the two causes of disease? ✅intrinsic and extrinsic

What are intrinsic factors? ✅genes, immunity, age,gender

What are extrinsic factors? ✅bacteria, viruses, injury, behaviors, stressors

What is the process of disease? ✅identification, occurence, diagnosis, etiology,
prognosis

Identification of disease ✅from signs and symptoms

Occurance of disease ✅how often, when

Diagnosis of disease ✅identification

Etiology of disease ✅cause of disease

Prognosis of disease ✅likelihood of recovery

Stages of disease ✅exposure and incubation
Onset
Remission
Convalescence

, Onset of disease can be ✅sudden, insidious, latent, prodromal

Insidious ✅proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects

Latent ✅hidden

Prodromal ✅early symptoms that may indicate the onset of a condition or disease

Convalescence ✅gradual recovery after an illness

Remission ✅a period of time when symptoms disappear

What are the three types of diseases? ✅idiopathic, iatrogenic, exacerbation

Idiopathic disease ✅disease with an unknown cause

Iatrogenic disease ✅disease caused by medical treatment

Exacerbation of a disease ✅worsening of a disease

Hypo- ✅under, below

Hyper- ✅above, over

-penia ✅lack of, deficiency

-cytosis ✅increase, refers to cells

-osis ✅process of condition

-itis ✅inflammation

-pathy ✅disease

What is pharmocology ✅the study of biological effects of drugs that are introduced into
the body to cause some sort of change

What are pharmacokinetics? ✅what happens to drugs in the body

What is pharmacodynamics? ✅(moa) effects on the body

What are therapeutic effects ✅intended effects of the drug

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