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    NURS 6501 - Advanced Pathophysiology FINAL EXAM  Question 1 1 out of 1 points A woman diagnosed with trichomoniasis asks if her sexual partner should be trea ted 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 0 out of 1 points 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: Prepare the baby for a lumbar puncture and blood cultures.  Question 3 1 out of 1 points A p atient 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 1 out of 1 points When are childhood cancers most often diagnosed? Selected Answer: At peak times of physical growth  Question 5 1 out of 1 points A severely ma lnourished 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

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    does the health care professional take next? Selected Answer: Have lab drawn for electrolyte levels.  Question 6 0 out of 1 points The student wants to know how the clinical manifestations and onset of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) differ from those of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in adults. What answer by the healthcare professional is best ? Selected Answer: JIA begins insidiously with systemic signs of inflammation.  Question 7 1 out of 1 points A patient has a temporary displacement of two bones in a joint causing the bone surface s 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 0 out of 1 points A preschool teacher notice s 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 Answer: Check the child's hair for the presence of small mites.  Question 9 1 out of 1 points 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 1 out of 1 points 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 1 out of 1 points What diagnosis is given to parents when their infant's hip maintains contact with the acetabulum but is

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    not well seated within the hip joint? Selected Answer: Subluxated hip  Question 12 1 out of 1 points 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 1 out of 1 points What are the clinical manifestations of testicular cancer? Selected Answer: Firm, nontender testicular mass  Question 14 1 out of 1 points A man reports to the healthcare professio nal 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 obtain ing a urine sample.  Question 15 1 out of 1 points 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 out of 1 points Which statement by the healthcare professional accurately describes childhood asthma? Selected Answer: An obstructive airway dise ase characterized by reversible airflow obstruction, bronchial hyperreactivity, and inflammation  Question 17 1 out of 1 points A patient is in status epilepticus. In addition to giving medication to stop the seizures , what would the healthcare professional place highest priority on?

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    Selected Answer: Providing oxygen  Question 18 1 out of 1 points A health care professional determines that the student needs more education when the stude nt makes which statement about treating bone infection? Selected Answer: Bacteria are walled off by macrophages and T lymphocytes; consequently, the antibiotics cannot penetrate the infected area.  Question 19 1 out of 1 points 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 1 out of 1 points 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 21 1 out of 1 points 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 1 out of 1 points Which cells function to maintain bone matrix? Selected Answer: Osteocytes  Question 23 1 out of 1 points A child has Duchenne muscular dystrophy and the parents want to know how this occurred. Which statement by the healthcare professional is most accurate?

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    Selected Answer: X - linked recessive inheritance  Question 24 1 out of 1 points What is the role of thromboxane A (TXA 2 ) in the secretion stage of hemostasis? Selected Answer: Stimulates platelet aggregation.  Question 25 1 out of 1 points A healthcare professional is educating a community men's group on symptoms of benign prostati c hyperplasia (BPH). The professional relates that most symptoms are a result of which pathophysiologic condition? Selected Answer: Compression of the urethra  Question 26 1 out of 1 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 devascularized and devitalized bone  Question 27 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 Answer: Presence of red blood cells  Question 28 1 out of 1 points A patient ha s been diagnosed with lithium toxicity. Which electrolyte imbalance does the healthcare professional correlate with this condition? Selected Answer: Hyponatremia  Question 29 0 out of 1 points A 7 year - old - child prese nts to the clinic where parents report signs and symptoms consistent with asthma. What does the healthcare professional do in order to confirm this diagnosis? Selected Answer: Draw serum levels of immunoglobulin E (IgE) and eosinophil levels

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