REAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+.
Above all, health care professionals must work together to provide
continuous, coordinated care; otherwise, the
efforts of one health care professional may be
negated by those of another.
An adult patient will be receiving outpatient intravenous antibiotic
therapy for the treatment of endocarditis. The nurse
is preparing to perform health education to ensure the patients
adherence to the course of treatment. Which of the
following assessments should be the
nurses immediate priority?
A) Patients understanding of the teaching plan
B) Quality of the patients relationships
C) Patients previous medical history
D) Characteristics of the patients culture - ANSWER-D) Characteristics
of the patients culture
,Before beginning health teaching, nurses must conduct an individual
cultural assessment instead of relying only on
generalized assumptions
about a particular culture.
The nurse is working with a male patient who has diagnoses of
coronary artery disease and angina pectoris. During a clinic visit, the
nurse learns that he has only been taking his prescribed antiplatelet
medication when he experiences chest pain and fatigue. What nursing
diagnosis is most relevant to this assessment finding?
A) Acute pain related to myocardial ischemia
B) Confusion related to mismanagement of drug regimen
C) Ineffective health maintenance related to inappropriate medication
use
D) Ineffective role performance related to inability to manage
medications - ANSWER-C) Ineffective health
maintenance related to
inappropriate medication use
This patients actions suggest that by taking his medications
incorrectly he is not adequately maintaining his health.
,A woman has been diagnosed with breast cancer and is being treated
aggressively with a chemotherapeutic regimen. As a result of this
regimen, she has an inability to fight infection due to the fact that her
bone marrow is unable to produce a sufficient amount of what?
A) Lymphocytes
B)
Cytoblasts
C)
Antibodies
D) Capillaries - ANSWER-
A) Lymphocytes
A nurse is working with a patient who was diagnosed with HIV
several months earlier. The nurse should recognize that a patient
with HIV is considered to have AIDS at the point when the CD4+ T-
lymphocyte cell count drops below what threshold? A) 75 cells/mm3
of blood
B) 200 cells/mm3 of blood
C) 325 cells/mm3 of blood
D) 450 cells/mm3 of blood - ANSWER-B) 200 cells/mm3 of blood
When CD4+ T-cell levels drop below 200 cells/mm3 of blood, the
person is said to have AIDS.
, A nurse is planning a patients care and is relating it to normal immune
response. During what stage of the immune response should the
nurse know that antibodies or cytotoxic T cells combine and destroy
the invading microbes?
A) Recognition stage
B) Proliferation stage
C) Response stage
D) Effector stage - ANSWER-D) Effector stage
In the effector stage, either the antibody of the humoral response or the
cytotoxic (killer) T cell of the cellular response
reaches and couples with the antigen on the
surface of the foreign invader.
The nurse must inform the parents and child that viral
conjunctivitis is highly contagious and instructions should
emphasize the importance of handwashing and avoiding
sharing towels, face cloths, and eye drops.
The nurse is admitting a 55-year-old male patient diagnosed with a
retinal detachment in his left eye. While assessing
this patient, what characteristic symptom
would the nurse expect to find?