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NURS 6501N 32 Advanced Pathophysiology 2020
Exams Review Test Submission: Exam - Week 6 Midterm
Review Test Submission: Exam -
Week 6 Midterm
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Course NURS-6501N-32,Advanced Pathophysiology.2020 Spring Qtr
02/24-05/17-PT
Test Exam - Week 6 Midterm
Started 4/4/20 3:01 PM
Submitted 4/4/20 5:01 PM
Due Date 4/6/20 1:59 AM
Status Completed
Attempt Score 63 out of 100 points
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Question 1
Submitted Answers, Incorrectly Answered Questions
1 out of 1 points
What is the blood type of a person who is heterozygous, having A and B alleles as codominant?
Selected Answer: AB
Question 2 0 out of 1 points
The data reporting that sickle cell disease affects approximately 1 in 600 American blacks is an example of which concept?
Selected Answer: Incidence
Question 3 (^) 1 out of 1 points
A patient is having a spirometry measurement done and asks the healthcare professional to explain this test. What response by the professional is best?
Selected
Answer:
To measure the volume and flow rate during forced expiration
Question 4 (^) 0 out of 1 points
A healthcare professional is caring for a patient undergoing chemotherapy. What is the skin-related health risk the professional should assess the patient for and be prepared to treat?
Selected Answer: Erythema
Question 5 (^) 0 out of 1 points
A professor has taught the students about the sources of increased ammonia in patients with hepatic encephalopathy. What statement by a student indicates the professor should review this material?
Selected
Answer:
Ammonia-forming bacteria in the colon are sources of increased ammonia.
Question 6 (^) 1 out of 1 points
What is the second most commonly recognized genetic cause of intellectual disability?
Selected Answer: Fragile X syndrome
Question 7 (^) 1 out of 1 points
Question 13 (^) 0 out of 1 points
A patient has a pulmonary capillary wedge pressure of 30mmHg. What assessment finding by the healthcare professional would be most consistent with this reading?
Selected Answer: Rhonchi
Question 14 (^) 1 out of 1 points
A patient is having an IgE-mediated hypersensitivity reaction. What action by the healthcare professional is best?
Selected Answer: Give the patient an antihistamine.
Question 15 (^) 1 out of 1 points
A healthcare professional is educating a patient on asthma. The professional tells the patient that the most successful treatment for chronic asthma begins with which action?
Selected Answer: Avoidance of the causative agent
Question 16 (^) 1 out of 1 points
A student asks the healthcare professional to explain the pathophysiologic process of alcoholic cirrhosis. What statement by the professional would not be consistent with complete knowledge about this process?
Selected
Answer:
Inflammation and damage leading to cirrhosis begin in the bile canaliculi.
Question 17 (^) 0 out of 1 points
The pathophysiologic process of edema is related to which mechanism?
Selected Answer: Increased plasma oncotic pressure
Question 18
1 out of 1 points
How does progressive nephron injury affect angiotensin II activity?
Selected Answer: Angiotensin II activity is elevated.
Question 19 (^) 1 out of 1 points
A student asks the professor to explain what effect natriuretic peptides have during heart failure when the heart dilates. Which response by the professor is best?
Selected Answer: Inhibits renin and aldosterone
Question 20
When renin is released, it is capable of which action?
0 out of 1 points
Selected Answer: Direct activation of angiotensin II
Question 21 (^) 1 out of 1 points
What is the initiating event that leads to the development of atherosclerosis?
Selected Answer: Injury to the endothelial cells that line the artery walls
Question 22 (^) 1 out of 1 points
The glomerular filtration rate is directly related to which factor?
Selected Answer: Perfusion pressure in the glomerular capillaries
Question 23 (^) 1 out of 1 points
What mechanisms occur in the liver cells as a result of lipid accumulation?
Selected
Answer:
Increased synthesis of triglycerides from fatty acids and decreased synthesis of apoproteins
Question 29 (^) 1 out of 1 points
If a patient develops acidosis, the nurse would expect the oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve to react in which manner?
Selected
Answer:
Shift to the right, causing more oxygen (O 2) to be released to the cells
Question 30
What does vomiting-induced metabolic alkalosis cause?
1 out of 1 points
Selected Answer: Retention of bicarbonate to maintain the anion balance
Question 31
What is one function of the tumor cell marker?
1 out of 1 points
Selected Answer: To screen individuals at high risk for cancer
Question 32 (^) 1 out of 1 points
A patient suffered multiple traumatic injuries and received many blood transfusions within a few days of the injuries. For which medical condition should the healthcare professional monitor the patient for?
Selected Answer: Hemosiderosis
Question 33 (^) 1 out of 1 points
A pregnant woman has Graves disease. What test/s does the healthcare professional advise the woman about?
Selected Answer: Blood test for hyperthyroidism
Question 34 (^) 1 out of 1 points
A healthcare professional is caring for a patient who has a delay in electrical activity reaching the ventricle as seen on ECG. What ECG finding would the healthcare professional associate with this problem?
Selected Answer: PR interval measuring 0.28 sec
Question 35 (^) 1 out of 1 points
A healthcare professional tells a student that a patient has lost atrial kick. What would the student expect to see when examining this patient?
Selected Answer: Signs of decreased cardiac output
Question 36 (^) 0 out of 1 points
A patient has diabetes mellitus. A recent urinalysis showed increased amounts of protein. What therapy does the healthcare provider educate the patient that is specific to this disorder?
Selected Answer: More frequent blood glucose monitoring
Question 37 (^) 0 out of 1 points
A healthcare professional is caring for four patients. Which patient does the professional assess for neurogenic diabetes insipidus (DI)?
Selected Answer: Anterior pituitary tumor
Question 38
How do free radicals cause cell damage?
0 out of 1 points
Selected
Answer:
Stealing the cell's oxygen to stabilize the electron, thus causing hypoxia
Question 39 (^) 1 out of 1 points
A student studying biology asks the professor to describe how the ras gene is involved in cancer proliferation. What explanation by the professor is best?
Question 45 (^) 0 out of 1 points
Which statement made by a student indicates the healthcare professional needs to describe the pericardium again?
Selected
Answer:
The pericardium is a double-walled membranous sac that encloses the heart.
Question 46
Where is two thirds of the body's water found?
1 out of 1 points
Selected Answer: Intracellular fluid compartments
Question 47 (^) 1 out of 1 points
A healthcare professional is caring for four patients. Which patient does the professional assess for pulmonary emboli (PE) as the priority?
Selected Answer: Deep venous thrombosis
Question 48 (^) 0 out of 1 points
A patient has been diagnosed with a renal stone. Based on knowledge of common stone types, what self-care measure does the healthcare professional plan to teach the patient when stone analysis has returned?
Selected Answer: Increase water intake.
Question 49
What is the inflammatory effect of nitric oxide (NO)?
1 out of 1 points
Selected
Answer:
Decreases mast cell function, and decreases platelet aggregation
Question 50
What is the cause of familial hypercholesterolemia (FH)?
1 out of 1 points
Selected
Answer:
Reduction in the number of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors on cell surfaces
Question 51 (^) 1 out of 1 points
During acidosis, the body compensates for the increase in serum hydrogen ions by shifting hydrogen ions into the cell in exchange for which electrolyte?
Selected Answer: Potassium
Question 52
Which chamber of the heart endures the highest pressures?
1 out of 1 points
Selected Answer: Left ventricle
Question 53 (^) 1 out of 1 points
When endothelial cells are injured, what alteration contributes to atherosclerosis?
Selected
Answer:
Cells are unable to make the normal amount of vasodilating cytokines.
Question 54
What is the cause of functional dysphagia?
1 out of 1 points
Selected Answer: Neural or muscular disorders
Question 55 (^) 0 out of 1 points
A patient diagnosed with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) has the following laboratory values: arterial pH 7.20; serum glucose 500 mg/dL; positive urine glucose and ketones; serum potassium (K +) 2 mEq/L; serum sodium (Na +) 130 mEq/L. The
Selected
Answer:
Th1 cells release cytokines that activate infiltrating macrophages, and cytotoxic T cells directly attack the endothelial cells of the transplanted tissue.
Question 61
What are blood pressure variations associated with?
1 out of 1 points
Selected Answer: The renin-angiotensin system's effect on vasoconstriction
Question 62 (^) 1 out of 1 points
A class of students has learned about contributing factors to duodenal ulcers. What statement indicates to the professor that the students need a review?
Selected
Answer:
Gastric emptying is slowed, causing greater exposure of the mucosa to acid.
Question 63 (^) 1 out of 1 points
Renal failure is the most common cause of which type of hyperparathyroidism?
Selected Answer: Secondary
Question 64 (^) 1 out of 1 points
An amniocentesis indicates a neural tube defect when an increase in which protein is evident?
Selected Answer: Alpha fetoprotein
Question 65 (^) 1 out of 1 points
A healthcare professional wants to determine the adequacy of a person's alveolar ventilation. What assessment finding is most important for the professional to consider?
Selected Answer: Arterial blood gas shows a PaCO 2 of 44 mmHg.
Question 66 (^) 1 out of 1 points
What is an expected change in the cardiovascular system that occurs with aging?
Selected Answer: Arterial stiffening
Question 67
Oxygenated blood flows through which vessel?
1 out of 1 points
Selected Answer: Pulmonary veins
Question 68 (^) 0 out of 1 points
A patient's urinalysis came back positive for glucose. What does the healthcare professional expect the patient's blood glucose to be at a minimum?
Selected Answer: 150 mg/dL
Question 69 (^) 1 out of 1 points
A student asks the healthcare professional to explain the function of the papillary muscles. What response by the professional is best?
Selected
Answer:
These muscles prevent backward expulsion of the atrioventricular valves.
Question 70 (^) 0 out of 1 points
The healthcare professional explains to a student that the amount of volume of blood in the heart is directly related to the of contraction.
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Question 71 (^) 1 out of 1 points
Selected
Answer:
Hormones, enzymes, antigens, and antibodies that are produced by cancer cells
Question 77 (^) 0 out of 1 points
The acute inflammatory response is characterized by fever that is produced by the hypothalamus being affected by what?
Selected Answer: Bacterial endotoxin
Question 78 (^) 0 out of 1 points
A healthcare professional is educating a patient about asthma. The professional states that good control is necessary due to which pathophysiologic process?
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Question 79 (^) 0 out of 1 points
The student asks the professor to explain what characteristic is demonstrated by lungs with decreased compliance?
Selected Answer: Inability to diffuse oxygen
Question 80 (^) 0 out of 1 points
The action of platelet-derived growth factor is to stimulate the production of which cells?
Selected Answer: Fibroblast cells
Question 81 (^) 0 out of 1 points
A healthcare professional tells the student that a properly placed endotracheal tube for mechanical ventilation is 5 to 7 cm above the tracheal bifurcation. Where does this bifurcation occur?
Selected Answer: Bronchi
Question 82 (^) 1 out of 1 points
Surfactant produced by type II alveolar cells facilitates alveolar distention and ventilation by which mechanism?
Selected Answer: Decreasing surface tension in the alveoli
Question 83 (^) 1 out of 1 points
A patient is brought to the Emergency Department with a gunshot wound to the chest. The healthcare professional assesses an abnormality involving a pleural rupture that acts as a one-way valve, permitting air to enter on inspiration but preventing its escape by closing during expiration. What action by the healthcare professional is the priority?
Selected Answer: Assist with a chest tube insertion.
Question 84 (^) 0 out of 1 points
A professor has taught the students about the pathogenesis of abdominal pain. Which statement by a student indicates the professor needs to review the material?
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Question 85 (^) 1 out of 1 points
People diagnosed with neurofibromatosis have varying degrees of the condition because of which genetic principle?
Selected Answer: Expressivity
Question 86 (^) 0 out of 1 points
A student asks the professor how a faulty negative-feedback mechanism results in a hormonal imbalance. What response by the professor is best?
Selected Answer: Too little hormone production is initiated.
Selected Answer: Secrete growth factors that stimulate their own growth
Question 93 (^) 1 out of 1 points
Neurotransmitters affect the postsynaptic membrane by binding to which structure?
Selected Answer: Receptors
Question 94 (^) 0 out of 1 points
A healthcare provider notes that tapping the patient's facial nerve leads to lip twitching. What electrolyte value is correlated with this finding?
Selected Answer: Ca ++: 12.9 mg/dL
Question 95 (^) 0 out of 1 points
During cell injury caused by hypoxia, why does an increase in the osmotic pressure within the cell occur?
Selected
Answer:
An influx of glucose occurs through the injured cell membranes.
Question 96 (^) 1 out of 1 points
A female patient has been diagnosed with an uncomplicated urinary tract infection. What self-care measure does the healthcare provider teach the patient that is specific to this type of infection?
Selected Answer: After using the bathroom, wipe from front to back.
Question 97 (^) 0 out of 1 points
A healthcare professional is conducting community education on vaccinations. Which statement about vaccines does the professional include in the presentation?
Selected Answer: Most viral vaccines are made by using dead organisms.
Question 98 (^) 0 out of 1 points
A patient reports dumping syndrome after a partial gastrectomy. What does the healthcare professional teach this patient?
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Question 99 (^) 0 out of 1 points
Once they have penetrated the first line of defense, which microorganisms do natural killer (NK) cells actively attack?
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Question 100 (^) 0 out of 1 points
Free radicals play a major role in the initiation and progression of which diseases?
Selected Answer: [None Given]
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