NR507 EDPATS FINAL PAPER QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS FULL REVIEW
GUIDE
●● What is true regarding complicated UTIs?
Answer: Can be caused by a structural urinary tract disorder
●● What can help prevent a UTI?
Answer: Increased water consumption
●● True/False: Women are at higher risk of developing UTI because
they have a shorter urethra
Answer: True
●● What is a risk factor for developing a UTI?
Answer: Pregnancy
●● What is true regarding an uncomplicated UTI?
Answer: - Occurs in the normal urinary tract
- Responds well to short-course of antibiotics
●● What is true regarding a complicated UTI?
,Answer: - UTI that extends beyond the bladder
- Infants & older adults are usually affected
- Caused by structural/functional urinary tract abnormalities or a
untreated UTI
●● What will the urinalysis of a patient with a UTI show?
Answer: WBCs & casts
●● The NP knows an uncomplicated UTI because
Answer: the UTI responds well to a short-course of antibiotic therapy
●● Highly suspective that causative bacteria of UTI is gram negative
because of the presence of
Answer: Nitrites
●● A common organism that causes a UTI includes
Answer: Staphylococcus saprophyticus
●● True/False: There is a significant risk for men with BPH to develop
cellular mutations that lead to prostate cancer
Answer: False
●● True/False: The peripheral zone of the prostate is the largest zone
, Answer: True
●● On digital rectal exam to assess quality of prostate, NP would be
concerned with a hard nodule because
Answer: it indicates prostate cancer
●● The patient most often develops symptoms of BPH when
Answer: the prostatic urethra becomes obstructed
●● True/False: The purpose of straining in BPH is to overcome the
obstruction encountered during urination
Answer: True
●● What is the reaction of 5-Alpha reductase inhibitors?
Answer: To cause shrinkage of the prostate gland
●● Where are the hyper plastic nodules of BPH located?
Answer: Periurethral zone
●● Why are men who have BPH prone to develop UTIs?
Answer: Because of the stagnation of urine in the bladder that promotes
bacterial growth.
AND CORRECT ANSWERS FULL REVIEW
GUIDE
●● What is true regarding complicated UTIs?
Answer: Can be caused by a structural urinary tract disorder
●● What can help prevent a UTI?
Answer: Increased water consumption
●● True/False: Women are at higher risk of developing UTI because
they have a shorter urethra
Answer: True
●● What is a risk factor for developing a UTI?
Answer: Pregnancy
●● What is true regarding an uncomplicated UTI?
Answer: - Occurs in the normal urinary tract
- Responds well to short-course of antibiotics
●● What is true regarding a complicated UTI?
,Answer: - UTI that extends beyond the bladder
- Infants & older adults are usually affected
- Caused by structural/functional urinary tract abnormalities or a
untreated UTI
●● What will the urinalysis of a patient with a UTI show?
Answer: WBCs & casts
●● The NP knows an uncomplicated UTI because
Answer: the UTI responds well to a short-course of antibiotic therapy
●● Highly suspective that causative bacteria of UTI is gram negative
because of the presence of
Answer: Nitrites
●● A common organism that causes a UTI includes
Answer: Staphylococcus saprophyticus
●● True/False: There is a significant risk for men with BPH to develop
cellular mutations that lead to prostate cancer
Answer: False
●● True/False: The peripheral zone of the prostate is the largest zone
, Answer: True
●● On digital rectal exam to assess quality of prostate, NP would be
concerned with a hard nodule because
Answer: it indicates prostate cancer
●● The patient most often develops symptoms of BPH when
Answer: the prostatic urethra becomes obstructed
●● True/False: The purpose of straining in BPH is to overcome the
obstruction encountered during urination
Answer: True
●● What is the reaction of 5-Alpha reductase inhibitors?
Answer: To cause shrinkage of the prostate gland
●● Where are the hyper plastic nodules of BPH located?
Answer: Periurethral zone
●● Why are men who have BPH prone to develop UTIs?
Answer: Because of the stagnation of urine in the bladder that promotes
bacterial growth.
