NUR 163 EVALUATION EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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✔✔T/F Bronchoconstriction is a result of the release of norepinephrine and epinephrine
- ✔✔False; bronchodilation
✔✔T/F Increased blood glucose level is a result of the release of norepinephrine and
epinephrine - ✔✔True
✔✔T/F Decreased BP is a result of the release of norepinephrine and epinephrine -
✔✔False; increased
✔✔T/F Increased HR, contraction, and cardiac output is a result of the release of
norepinephrine and epinephrine - ✔✔True
✔✔Which intervention would be most beneficial for a patient experiencing frequent
headaches related to muscle tension? behavioral skills training, health education,
biofeedback, or meditation? - ✔✔Biofeedback
✔✔what are the defining characteristics of stress overload? - ✔✔Anger, impatience,
inability to make decisions
✔✔T/F If a person experiences a positive event, such as winning the lottery, the person
experiences stress because he/she is encountering a significant life change - ✔✔True
✔✔What is the fight or flight response? - ✔✔a predictable range of physiologic
responses in the face of danger
✔✔What life event is considered most stressful? - ✔✔The *sudden* death of a child
✔✔Why would someone be experiencing constipation during a stressful event? -
✔✔decreased peristalsis
✔✔T/F mild stress is bad - ✔✔False; mild stress causes increased alertness, which is
good, in moderation
✔✔T/F Depression can occur because of high levels of stress - ✔✔True
✔✔Biofeedback is: - ✔✔making the pt aware of physiologic responses to stress in an
attempt to gain control over those responses
✔✔T/F Suppression is making generalizations to avoid disturbing thoughts - ✔✔False;
emotion-focused strategy
, ✔✔repression - ✔✔removal of anxiety-producing thoughts or experiences from
conscious awareness
✔✔denial - ✔✔refusing to acknowledge some painful painful aspect of external reality
that is obvious to others
✔✔rationalization - ✔✔creating an acceptable explanations for unacceptable thoughts
or actions
✔✔intellectualization - ✔✔making generalizations to avoid avoid disturbing thoughts or
feelings
✔✔displacement - ✔✔transferring emotions about one situation or person onto another
✔✔suppression - ✔✔avoiding thinking about distressing situations
✔✔projection - ✔✔Attributing one's own thoughts, feelings, or motives to another
✔✔sublimation - ✔✔channeling negative energy into socially acceptable behaviors
✔✔substitution - ✔✔keeping so busy with activities that there is no time to think about
stressors
✔✔Which systems does immobility affect? - ✔✔All body systems
✔✔Immobility complications - ✔✔depression, f/e imbalance, a/b imbalance, dec.
perfusion -> DVT, dec. peristalsis, dec. C.O., skin breakdown -> pressure ulcers,
pneumonia -> resp. acid., inc. risk for infection, edema, atrophy, bone demineralization -
> kidney stones and osteoporosis
✔✔Immobility interventions - ✔✔ambulate, wt. bearing exercises, SCD's, ted hose,
ankle pumps, turn Q 2 hrs, float heels, Ca++ Vit. D/Calcitonin, moon boots, hot/cold
therapy, pre-med before exercise, referral to: social workers, PT, OT, DT
✔✔What can you delegate to a UAP? - ✔✔anything that doesn't involve assessment,
medications, or nursing treatments (examples include: ambulation, ROM, moon boots,
float heels, hot/cold therapy (unless assessment is needed), wt. bearing exercises)
✔✔What natural changes associated with aging affect activity in older adults? -
✔✔increased joint degeneration
✔✔T/F By limiting physical mobility with restraint, the patient has a decreased risk for
falls - ✔✔False; increased risk
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✔✔T/F Bronchoconstriction is a result of the release of norepinephrine and epinephrine
- ✔✔False; bronchodilation
✔✔T/F Increased blood glucose level is a result of the release of norepinephrine and
epinephrine - ✔✔True
✔✔T/F Decreased BP is a result of the release of norepinephrine and epinephrine -
✔✔False; increased
✔✔T/F Increased HR, contraction, and cardiac output is a result of the release of
norepinephrine and epinephrine - ✔✔True
✔✔Which intervention would be most beneficial for a patient experiencing frequent
headaches related to muscle tension? behavioral skills training, health education,
biofeedback, or meditation? - ✔✔Biofeedback
✔✔what are the defining characteristics of stress overload? - ✔✔Anger, impatience,
inability to make decisions
✔✔T/F If a person experiences a positive event, such as winning the lottery, the person
experiences stress because he/she is encountering a significant life change - ✔✔True
✔✔What is the fight or flight response? - ✔✔a predictable range of physiologic
responses in the face of danger
✔✔What life event is considered most stressful? - ✔✔The *sudden* death of a child
✔✔Why would someone be experiencing constipation during a stressful event? -
✔✔decreased peristalsis
✔✔T/F mild stress is bad - ✔✔False; mild stress causes increased alertness, which is
good, in moderation
✔✔T/F Depression can occur because of high levels of stress - ✔✔True
✔✔Biofeedback is: - ✔✔making the pt aware of physiologic responses to stress in an
attempt to gain control over those responses
✔✔T/F Suppression is making generalizations to avoid disturbing thoughts - ✔✔False;
emotion-focused strategy
, ✔✔repression - ✔✔removal of anxiety-producing thoughts or experiences from
conscious awareness
✔✔denial - ✔✔refusing to acknowledge some painful painful aspect of external reality
that is obvious to others
✔✔rationalization - ✔✔creating an acceptable explanations for unacceptable thoughts
or actions
✔✔intellectualization - ✔✔making generalizations to avoid avoid disturbing thoughts or
feelings
✔✔displacement - ✔✔transferring emotions about one situation or person onto another
✔✔suppression - ✔✔avoiding thinking about distressing situations
✔✔projection - ✔✔Attributing one's own thoughts, feelings, or motives to another
✔✔sublimation - ✔✔channeling negative energy into socially acceptable behaviors
✔✔substitution - ✔✔keeping so busy with activities that there is no time to think about
stressors
✔✔Which systems does immobility affect? - ✔✔All body systems
✔✔Immobility complications - ✔✔depression, f/e imbalance, a/b imbalance, dec.
perfusion -> DVT, dec. peristalsis, dec. C.O., skin breakdown -> pressure ulcers,
pneumonia -> resp. acid., inc. risk for infection, edema, atrophy, bone demineralization -
> kidney stones and osteoporosis
✔✔Immobility interventions - ✔✔ambulate, wt. bearing exercises, SCD's, ted hose,
ankle pumps, turn Q 2 hrs, float heels, Ca++ Vit. D/Calcitonin, moon boots, hot/cold
therapy, pre-med before exercise, referral to: social workers, PT, OT, DT
✔✔What can you delegate to a UAP? - ✔✔anything that doesn't involve assessment,
medications, or nursing treatments (examples include: ambulation, ROM, moon boots,
float heels, hot/cold therapy (unless assessment is needed), wt. bearing exercises)
✔✔What natural changes associated with aging affect activity in older adults? -
✔✔increased joint degeneration
✔✔T/F By limiting physical mobility with restraint, the patient has a decreased risk for
falls - ✔✔False; increased risk
