NSG5003 FINAL EXAM SOUTH UNIVERSITY
100% ORIGINAL WEEK 11 EXAM SPRING-
SUMMER-FALL TERM VERIFIED EXAM
1. A student asks the professor to explain the jaundice that accompanies
hemolytic anemia. Which statement by the professor is most accurate?
Answer: Heme destruction exceeds the liver's ability to conjugate and
excrete bilirubin.
2. Which cells function to maintain bone matrix?
Answer: Osteocytes
3. A child has Duchenne muscular dystrophy and the parents want to
know how this occurred. Which statement by the healthcare professional
is most accurate?
Answer: X-linked recessive inheritance
4. What is the role of thromboxane A (TXA2) in the secretion stage of
hemostasis?
Answer: Stimulates platelet aggregation.
5. A healthcare professional is educating a community men's group on
symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The professional relates
that most symptoms are a result of which pathophysiologic condition?
Answer: Compression of the urethra
,6. A student studying osteomyelitis asks for an explanation of the term
sequestrum. What response by the professor is best?
Answer: An area of devascularized and devitalized bone
7. A child with acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis is voiding
smoky, brown-colored urine and asks the healthcare professional to
explain what causes it. What explanation by the professional is best?
Answer: Presence of red blood cells
8. A patient has been diagnosed with lithium toxicity. Which electrolyte
imbalance does the healthcare professional correlate with this condition?
Answer: Hyponatremia
9. A 7-year-old child presents to the clinic where parents report signs and
symptoms consistent with asthma. What does the healthcare professional
do in order to confirm this diagnosis?
Answer: Measure expiratory flow rate with spirometry testing
10. A 9-year-old child has a blood pressure of 112/72 mmHg in the school
nurse's office. What action by the school nurse is most appropriate?
Answer: Note the normal finding in the child's records.
,11. What diagnosis is given to parents when their infant's hip
maintains contact with the acetabulum but is not well seated
within the hip joint?
Answer: Subluxated hip
12. The healthcare professional directs a student to assess a teen
who has Osgood-Schlatter disease. What assessment finding
does the student anticipate for this disorder?
Answer: Tendinitis of the anterior patellar tendon
13. What are the clinical manifestations of testicular cancer?
Answer: Firm, nontender testicular mass
14. A man reports to the healthcare professional that he had a
sudden onset of malaise, low back pain, and perineal pain with
high fever and chills, dysuria, nocturia, and urinary retention.
What action by the healthcare professional is most appropriate?
Answer: Assist the man in obtaining a urine sample.
15. An infant has been diagnosed with intussusception and the
student asks the healthcare professional to explain the condition.
What explanation by the professional is most accurate?
, Answer: One part of the intestine telescopes into another section
of the intestine.
16. Which statement by the healthcare professional accurately
describes childhood asthma?
Answer: An obstructive airway disease characterized by
reversible airflow obstruction, bronchial hyperreactivity, and
inflammation
17. A patient is in status epilepticus. In addition to giving
medication to stop the seizures, what would the healthcare
professional place highest priority on?
Answer: Providing oxygen
18. A health care professional determines that the student needs
more education when the student makes which statement about
treating bone infection?
Answer: Bacteria are walled off by macrophages and T
lymphocytes; consequently, the antibiotics cannot penetrate the
infected area.
100% ORIGINAL WEEK 11 EXAM SPRING-
SUMMER-FALL TERM VERIFIED EXAM
1. A student asks the professor to explain the jaundice that accompanies
hemolytic anemia. Which statement by the professor is most accurate?
Answer: Heme destruction exceeds the liver's ability to conjugate and
excrete bilirubin.
2. Which cells function to maintain bone matrix?
Answer: Osteocytes
3. A child has Duchenne muscular dystrophy and the parents want to
know how this occurred. Which statement by the healthcare professional
is most accurate?
Answer: X-linked recessive inheritance
4. What is the role of thromboxane A (TXA2) in the secretion stage of
hemostasis?
Answer: Stimulates platelet aggregation.
5. A healthcare professional is educating a community men's group on
symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The professional relates
that most symptoms are a result of which pathophysiologic condition?
Answer: Compression of the urethra
,6. A student studying osteomyelitis asks for an explanation of the term
sequestrum. What response by the professor is best?
Answer: An area of devascularized and devitalized bone
7. A child with acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis is voiding
smoky, brown-colored urine and asks the healthcare professional to
explain what causes it. What explanation by the professional is best?
Answer: Presence of red blood cells
8. A patient has been diagnosed with lithium toxicity. Which electrolyte
imbalance does the healthcare professional correlate with this condition?
Answer: Hyponatremia
9. A 7-year-old child presents to the clinic where parents report signs and
symptoms consistent with asthma. What does the healthcare professional
do in order to confirm this diagnosis?
Answer: Measure expiratory flow rate with spirometry testing
10. A 9-year-old child has a blood pressure of 112/72 mmHg in the school
nurse's office. What action by the school nurse is most appropriate?
Answer: Note the normal finding in the child's records.
,11. What diagnosis is given to parents when their infant's hip
maintains contact with the acetabulum but is not well seated
within the hip joint?
Answer: Subluxated hip
12. The healthcare professional directs a student to assess a teen
who has Osgood-Schlatter disease. What assessment finding
does the student anticipate for this disorder?
Answer: Tendinitis of the anterior patellar tendon
13. What are the clinical manifestations of testicular cancer?
Answer: Firm, nontender testicular mass
14. A man reports to the healthcare professional that he had a
sudden onset of malaise, low back pain, and perineal pain with
high fever and chills, dysuria, nocturia, and urinary retention.
What action by the healthcare professional is most appropriate?
Answer: Assist the man in obtaining a urine sample.
15. An infant has been diagnosed with intussusception and the
student asks the healthcare professional to explain the condition.
What explanation by the professional is most accurate?
, Answer: One part of the intestine telescopes into another section
of the intestine.
16. Which statement by the healthcare professional accurately
describes childhood asthma?
Answer: An obstructive airway disease characterized by
reversible airflow obstruction, bronchial hyperreactivity, and
inflammation
17. A patient is in status epilepticus. In addition to giving
medication to stop the seizures, what would the healthcare
professional place highest priority on?
Answer: Providing oxygen
18. A health care professional determines that the student needs
more education when the student makes which statement about
treating bone infection?
Answer: Bacteria are walled off by macrophages and T
lymphocytes; consequently, the antibiotics cannot penetrate the
infected area.
