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1. Which pathophysiological concept should the nurse consider when developing a plan of care for
a patient with myocardial ischemia?
 There is a decrease in the amount of oxygen and glucose reaching the myocardium.
2. The nurse is documenting the assessment findings from a patient being seen in the clinic. Which
of the following does the nurse document as a subjective finding?
 Nausea
3. A patient has been diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
 The nurse explains to the patient that idiopathic means unidentifiable.
4. The nurse is assessing a patient's risk factors for the disease at an annual physical examination.
Which question would the nurse ask to assess lifestyle risk factors?
 How would you describe your diet?
5. How should the nurse respond when a patient asks the difference between acute and chronic
hip pain?
 A chronic illness is enduring while an acute illness is short term
6. The nurse cares for a client with acute respiratory alkalosis. Which of the following could be the
cause?
 Hyperventilation
7. The heart is not able or strong enough to efficiently pump an adequate volume of blood to the
body. Thus, fluid begins to back up within the circulation and the fluid builds up in the lungs and
begins to field the alveoli a condition called.
 Congestive heart failure
8. Due to pulmonary hypertension the right ventricle must work extra hard to overcome the
increase in pulmonary blood pressure it is a condition called?
 Corpumonale
9. Which of the following is the best concept of normal blood pressure?
 Normal bp has different readings with a standard range
10. The nurse in the student health center is counseling a college student who reports a high level of
stress before each exam, causing his heart to race and affecting his ability to concentrate. The
nurse assesses that this student is in which state of the general adaptation syndrome during an
exam.
 Stage of alarm
11. It is the accumulation of plaque in the blood vessel.
 Atherosclerosis
12. When taking a health history from a client will increase visceral fat as determined by waist size
the nurse would also expect to find an increase positive of which possible condition?
 Type 2 diabetes
13. In evaluating the effectiveness of an exercise program in an obese client. The nurse should
expect the following outcome?
 Enhance feelings of well being
14. Malignancies originating in the bone marrow of blood?
 leukemia
15. Which manifestation would a nurse expect in a 3-month-old with diarrhea?
 No tears when crying
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16. A nurse is caring for a client with gangrene present on the client's leg. What is the nurse's
understanding of the client's condition? Select all that apply.
 The client has a form of coagulation necrosis.
 Gangrene describes a mass of necrotic tissue.
 There are two types of gangrene: wet and dry.
17. A nurse is caring for a number of clients. Based on the site of injury, which client is at the most
immediate risk for hypoxia-induced cell injury?
 A client admitted with a traumatic brain injury
18. Lab results for a client are consistent with inflammation. What is the nurse's understanding of
inflammation? Select all that apply.
  It involves the destruction of tissue.
 It is a response to tissue injury.
 It begins the process of tissue repair.
 It is defined as a protective tissue response.
19. It is a protection from infectious disease?
 Immunity
20. The nurse is teaching a community course about cancer prevention which contributing factors to
malignancies will the nurse include in the teaching?
 Lifestyle factor
 Hormonal influence
 Environmental variable
 Oxidative stress
21. It is a systemic life-threatening type 1 hypersensitivity reaction that results from the presence of
an antigen introduced by injection, inspection, or absorption thru the epithelial skin or
gastrointestinal mucosa
 Anaphylaxis
22. When assessing a female patient with toxic shock syndrome, the nurse may suspect that the
patient has recently?
 used hyper-absorbent tampons while menstruating
23. it is responsible for most HIV infections worldwide in the causative agents of AIDS?
 HIV 1
24. The nurse is caring for a client who is five months pregnant and HIV positive. What is the nurse's
understanding of the neonate's HIV status?
 The neonate may or may not be infected with HIV
25. How should the nurse respond when a patient with human immunodeficiency virus asks about
the course of the disease?
 The disease is a variable progression so it is to know right now
26. Which concepts does the nurse use when explaining the inheritance of genetic disorder to a
couple beginning to think about starting a family,
 A person inherits one chromosome from a chromosome pair from each parent.
27. Heart attack is
 Only options A and C
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28. Which manifestation is the nurse likely to assess adaptation which stimulates the effect of acute
stress?
 Increase blood glucose levels and pupil dilation
29. If atherosclerosis builds up slowly over time the body will
 Create collateral circulation
30. When planning care, the nurse in a substance abuse clinic understands that the majority of the
people who abused alcohol die from
 Smoking-related disease
31. The school nurse is teaching parents of school-age children ways to avoid transmitting disease
which portal of entry is involved in the spreading of disease by direct entry
 Entering thru the wound in the skin
32. In a child with acute lymphocytic leukemia which manifestations are due to Thrombocythemia
 Bleeding and bruising
33. A rise from abnormal cells in hematopoietic system that vary according to specific cell line from
origin
 Hematologic cancer
34. The nurse is caring for a client with acute inflammation. What is the possible outcomes of acute
inflammation?
 Fibrous inflammation
35. Which statement describe the roles of nurse involve in etymology
 The nurse studies the distribution of disease in a population.
36. Which information among risk factors should the school nurse do when developing
 Certain ethic, increase for chronic disease
 Heart disease develop at earlier
37. The nurse is assessing patient in the withdrawal stage substance abuse
 Increase sensitivity stress
38. Which statement by a patient indicate that the nurse know what is drug tolerance in effective
 Drug tolerance develop after using the drug for the first time
39. The nurse is caring for a client with acute respiratory alkalosis depth of breathing
 Respiratory muscle increase the force of contraction
40. A client with renal impairment presence with acid base imbalance
 Reabsorption of bicarbonate in the blood
41. The nurse is caring for a client with a diagnosis of metastatic cancer with pathogenic bone
fracture the nurse will understand
 Pathogenic fractures occur by either increase pressure by the bone or
42. A nurse working by has increased in an incidence pressure ulcer in the patient population
 Review the literature for current best evidence for pressure ulcer
43. Error in a gene
 Mutation
44. The difference between stable and unstable (angela)
 Stable angela is cause by permanent obstruction while unstable angela AKA is
secondary acute dnysmic
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45. A nurse is educating a client with cervical dysplasia diagnosed by Papanicolaou (Pap) smear.
Which statement by the client requires further follow up by the nurse?
 I have cervical cancer.