NURS 6501 Patho Final exam Version 4 / NURS6501 Patho Final exam:NEWEST-2022
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NURS 6501 PATHO FINAL EXAM VERSION # 4 (100% Correct)
Question 1. A woman diagnosed with trichomoniasis asks if her sexual partner should be treated as well.
What is the appropriate response by the healthcare professional? Selected Answer: Sexual partners
should be treated even if they are asymptomatic.
Question 2. An infant is brought to the emergency department by parents who report that the baby's
fontanels seem to be bulging outward. What action by the healthcare provider is most appropriate?
Selected Answer: Measure the head circumference and plot it on a growth chart.
Question 3. A patient has polycythemia vera and presents to the Emergency Department with plethora
and neurological changes. The student asks the healthcare professional to explain the primary cause of
these symptoms. What response by the professional is best? Selected Answer: Increased blood viscosity.
Question 4. When are childhood cancers most often diagnosed? Selected Answer: At peak times of
physical growth.
Question 5. A severely malnourished patient is in the hospital to improve nutrition. On the second day,
the patient reports palpitations and difficulty breathing. After placing the patient on a cardiac monitor,
what action does the health care professional take next? Selected Answer: Have lab drawn for
electrolyte levels.
Question 6. What is the link between major depression and cortisol secretion? Selected Answer:
Individuals with depression show that persistently elevated plasma cortisol levels can result in
inflammation that is believed to trigger depression.
Question 7. A patient has a temporary displacement of two bones in a joint causing the bone surfaces to
partially lose contact with each other. What treatment does the health care professional prepare the
patient for? Selected Answer: Reduction and immobilization.
Question 8. A patient has chronic anemia associated with chronic renal failure. What substance does the
healthcare professional, tell the patient is needed to treat this anemia? Selected Answer: Erythropoietin.
Question 9. The disruption in cellular adhesion observed in bullous impetigo is caused by an exfoliative
toxin related to which organism? Selected Answer: Staphylococcus aureus.
Question 10. A mother reports that her young teens have voracious appetites. The healthcare
professional would explain that which hormone is linked to an increase in appetite during puberty?
Selected Answer: Leptin.
Question 11. What diagnosis is given to parents when their infant's hip maintains contact with the
acetabulum but is not well seated within the hip joint? Selected Answer: Subluxated hip.
Question 12. The healthcare professional directs a student to assess a teen who has Osgood-Schlatter
disease. What assessment finding does the student anticipate for this disorder? Selected Answer:
Tendinitis of the anterior patellar tendon.
Question 13. What are the clinical manifestations of testicular cancer? Selected Answer: Firm, nontender
testicular mass.
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, Question 14. A man reports to the healthcare professional that he had a sudden onset of malaise, low
back pain, and perineal pain with high fever and chills, dysuria, nocturia, and urinary retention. What
action by the healthcare professional is most appropriate? Selected Answer: Assist the man in obtaining
a urine sample.
Question 15. An infant has been diagnosed with intussusception and the student asks the healthcare
professional to explain the condition. What explanation by the professional is most accurate? Selected
Answer: One part of the intestine telescopes into another section of the intestine.
Question 16. 1 Which statement by the healthcare professional accurately describes childhood asthma?
Selected Answer: An obstructive airway disease characterized by reversible airflow obstruction, bronchial
hyperreactivity, and inflammation.
Question 17. A patient is in status epilepticus. In addition to giving medication to stop the seizures, what
would the healthcare professional place highest priority on? Selected Answer: Providing oxygen.
Question 18. A health care professional determines that the student needs more education when the
student makes which statement about treating bone infection? (tricky question) Selected Answer:
Bacteria are walled off by macrophages and T lymphocytes; consequently, the antibiotics cannot
penetrate the infected area.
Question 19. A health care professional is teaching a group of college women about increasing calcium in
the diet to prevent osteoporosis. A participant asks at what age is peak bone mass is reached in women.
What response is best? Selected Answer: 30 years.
Question 20. What is the link between major depression and cortisol secretion? Selected Answer:
Individuals with depression show that persistently elevated plasma cortisol levels can result in
inflammation that is believed to trigger depression. REPEAT OF Q 6.
Question 21. A student asks the professor to explain the jaundice that accompanies hemolytic anemia.
Which statement is by the professor is most accurate? Selected Answer: Heme destruction exceeds the
liver's ability to conjugate and excrete bilirubin.
Question 22. Which, cells function to maintain bone matrix? Selected Answer: Osteocytes.
Question 23. A child has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and the parents want to know how this
occurred. Which statement by the healthcare professional is most accurate? Selected Answer: X-linked
recessive inheritance.
Question 24. What is the role of thromboxane A (TXA 2) in the secretion stage of hemostasis? Selected
Answer: Stimulates platelet aggregation. (Thromboxane A 2 (TXA 2) induces multiple physiological responses, including platelet
cell adhesion and aggregation, vascular smooth muscle cell contraction, and endothelial inflammatory responses).
Question 25. A healthcare professional is educating a community men's group on symptoms of benign
prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The professional relates that most symptoms are a result of which
pathophysiologic condition? Selected Answer: Compression of the urethra.
Question 26. points A student studying osteomyelitis and asks for an explanation of the term
sequestrum. What response by the professor is best? Selected Answer: An area of de-vascularized and
devitalized bone.
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