NURS 6501 FINAL EXAM (ALREADY GRADED A)
Question 1
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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 2
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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?
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Answer:
Erythropoietin
Question 3
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What is the first indication of nephrotic syndrome in children?
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Answer:
Periorbital
edema
Question 4
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A patient is in the Emergency Department with heat stroke. What finding does the
healthcare provider associate with this condition?
Selected
Answer:
Absence of sweating despite a high core
temperature
Question 5
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Clinical manifestations that include irregular or heavy bleeding, the passage of large
clots, and the depletion of iron stores support which diagnosis?
Selected Polycystic ovary
syndrome
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Answer:
Question 6
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The health care professional is caring for a person who has a pathologic fracture. The
patient asks the professional to explain the condition. What response by the
professional is best?
Selected
Answer:
A fracture that happens at the site of an abnormality already
in that bone.
Question 7
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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
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Cystic fibrosis is characterized by which symptom?
Selected
Answer:
Excessive mucus
production
Question 9
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An infant has gluten-sensitive enteropathy and the parents ask the healthcare
professional to explain why the baby bruises so easily. The professional explains that
the baby has which deficit?
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Answer:
Vitamin K deficiency from fat
malabsorption
Question 10
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A healthcare professional advises a pregnant woman to add supplements of which
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nutrient to her diet to prevent birth defects?
Selected
Answer:
Folat
e
Question 11
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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?
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Answer:
Lepti
n
Question 12
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Why is nasal congestion a serious threat to young infants?
Selected
Answer:
Infants are obligatory nose
breathers.
Question 13
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A student studying osteomyelitis and asks for an explanation of the term sequestrum.
What response by the professor is best?
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Answer:
An area of devascularized and devitalized
bone
Question 14
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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 15
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