NURS 618 - Exam 1 Practice
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1. As part of a community class, the student nurses are a. ) primary prevention
developing a class to teach expectant parents the im-
portance of having their child properly secured in a
child safety seat. During the class, the students are
going to have a safety officer examine the car seats
that the parents have installed in their vehicles. This is
an example of which type of prevention?
a.) primary prevention
b.) secondary prevention
c.) tertiary prevention
d.) prognosis enhancement
2. A multidisciplinary health care team operates a pro- c.) staffing a booth where
gram aimed at the prevention, identification, and community residents who
treatment of diabetes on a large Indian reservation. are attending a base-
Which of the following aspects of the program would ball tournament can have
be most likely to be classified as secondary preven- their blood glucose levels
tion? checked
a. ) regularly scheduled wound dressing changes for
clients who have foot ulcers secondary to peripheral
neuropathy and impaired wound healing
b.) teaching school children how a nutritious, tradition-
al diet can lessen their chances of developing adult-on-
set diabetes
c.) staffing a booth where community residents who
are attending a baseball tournament can have their
blood glucose levels checked
d.) administering oral hyperglycemic medications to
patients who have a diagnosis of diabetes
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3. An occupational therapist conducts a group therapy c.) tertiary prevention
program called MindWorks with older adults who have
diagnosis of dementia and Alzheimer disease. The
goal of the group is to slow the cognitive decline of
clients by engaging them in regular, organized mental
activity such as reading maps and solving puzzles. How
would the program most likely be characterized?
a.) primary prevention
b.) secondary prevention
c.) tertiary prevention
d.) prognosis enhancement
4. A 14-year-old female has been experiencing severe b.) endoplasmic reticulum
internal cramps in the region of the pelvis and weight stress in the GI system
loss. She has been admitted with rectal bleeding. The
physician has diagnosed her with inflammatory bowel
disease (IBD). She asks the nurse what causes this dis-
ease. The nurse will base her response knowing that
IBD has been linked to:
a.) liver involvement in faulty glycogen stores
b.) endoplasmic reticulum stress in the GI system
c.) over-secretion of insulin from the beta cells in the
pancreas
d.) infiltration of the GI tract by bacterial toxins
5. A patient has been diagnosed with a neurodegenera- c.) "dysregulated apopto-
tive disease called multiple sclerosis (MS). The physi- sis has caused an exces-
cian explains to the patient that this disease may be sive rate of programmed
caused by dysregulated apoptosis. Later that day, the cell death along the neu-
patient asks the nurse what this means. The nurse ropathways"
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should reply:
a.) "the cells around you nerves don't know how to die
correctly"
b.) "the cytoplasm should neutralize the various apop-
totic inhibitors but isn't working correctly"
c.) "dysregulated apoptosis has caused an excessive
rate of programmed cell death along the neuropath-
ways"
d.) "there is an inappropriately low rate of apoptosis
occurring within the cells"
6. The nurse is teaching a group of colleagues about the c.) the 2 broad phases of
cell division cycle as background to oncology nursing. the cell cycle are mitosis
Which of the following statements is true of the cell and synthesis
cycle?
a.) some cells lack a G0 phase
b.) mitosis is a process that occurs in steps over 1 to 2
days
c.) the 2 broad phases of the cell cycle are mitosis and
synthesis
d.) nondividing cells such as nerve cells are said to be
in the S0 phase
7. A student asks the instructor about the origins of dif- c.) "a fertilized ovum un-
ferent tissues and their cellular origins during the dergoes a series of divi-
process of development. Which of the instructor's fol- sions, yielding many dif-
lowing statements best describes the process of cell ferent cell types"
differentiation?
a.) "cells of the hematopoietic system produce the ap-
propriate body cells that are required at each stage of
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1. As part of a community class, the student nurses are a. ) primary prevention
developing a class to teach expectant parents the im-
portance of having their child properly secured in a
child safety seat. During the class, the students are
going to have a safety officer examine the car seats
that the parents have installed in their vehicles. This is
an example of which type of prevention?
a.) primary prevention
b.) secondary prevention
c.) tertiary prevention
d.) prognosis enhancement
2. A multidisciplinary health care team operates a pro- c.) staffing a booth where
gram aimed at the prevention, identification, and community residents who
treatment of diabetes on a large Indian reservation. are attending a base-
Which of the following aspects of the program would ball tournament can have
be most likely to be classified as secondary preven- their blood glucose levels
tion? checked
a. ) regularly scheduled wound dressing changes for
clients who have foot ulcers secondary to peripheral
neuropathy and impaired wound healing
b.) teaching school children how a nutritious, tradition-
al diet can lessen their chances of developing adult-on-
set diabetes
c.) staffing a booth where community residents who
are attending a baseball tournament can have their
blood glucose levels checked
d.) administering oral hyperglycemic medications to
patients who have a diagnosis of diabetes
, NURS 618 - Exam 1 Practice
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3. An occupational therapist conducts a group therapy c.) tertiary prevention
program called MindWorks with older adults who have
diagnosis of dementia and Alzheimer disease. The
goal of the group is to slow the cognitive decline of
clients by engaging them in regular, organized mental
activity such as reading maps and solving puzzles. How
would the program most likely be characterized?
a.) primary prevention
b.) secondary prevention
c.) tertiary prevention
d.) prognosis enhancement
4. A 14-year-old female has been experiencing severe b.) endoplasmic reticulum
internal cramps in the region of the pelvis and weight stress in the GI system
loss. She has been admitted with rectal bleeding. The
physician has diagnosed her with inflammatory bowel
disease (IBD). She asks the nurse what causes this dis-
ease. The nurse will base her response knowing that
IBD has been linked to:
a.) liver involvement in faulty glycogen stores
b.) endoplasmic reticulum stress in the GI system
c.) over-secretion of insulin from the beta cells in the
pancreas
d.) infiltration of the GI tract by bacterial toxins
5. A patient has been diagnosed with a neurodegenera- c.) "dysregulated apopto-
tive disease called multiple sclerosis (MS). The physi- sis has caused an exces-
cian explains to the patient that this disease may be sive rate of programmed
caused by dysregulated apoptosis. Later that day, the cell death along the neu-
patient asks the nurse what this means. The nurse ropathways"
, NURS 618 - Exam 1 Practice
Study online at https://quizlet.com/_gobpwz
should reply:
a.) "the cells around you nerves don't know how to die
correctly"
b.) "the cytoplasm should neutralize the various apop-
totic inhibitors but isn't working correctly"
c.) "dysregulated apoptosis has caused an excessive
rate of programmed cell death along the neuropath-
ways"
d.) "there is an inappropriately low rate of apoptosis
occurring within the cells"
6. The nurse is teaching a group of colleagues about the c.) the 2 broad phases of
cell division cycle as background to oncology nursing. the cell cycle are mitosis
Which of the following statements is true of the cell and synthesis
cycle?
a.) some cells lack a G0 phase
b.) mitosis is a process that occurs in steps over 1 to 2
days
c.) the 2 broad phases of the cell cycle are mitosis and
synthesis
d.) nondividing cells such as nerve cells are said to be
in the S0 phase
7. A student asks the instructor about the origins of dif- c.) "a fertilized ovum un-
ferent tissues and their cellular origins during the dergoes a series of divi-
process of development. Which of the instructor's fol- sions, yielding many dif-
lowing statements best describes the process of cell ferent cell types"
differentiation?
a.) "cells of the hematopoietic system produce the ap-
propriate body cells that are required at each stage of
