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1. A nurse is working with a patient who B) 200 cells/mm3 of blood
was diagnosed with HIV several months
earlier. The nurse should recognize that When CD4+ T-cell levels drop
a patient with HIV is considered to have below 200 cells/mm3 of blood,
AIDS at the point when the CD4+ T-lym- the person is said to have
phocyte cell count drops below what AIDS.
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
2. A nurse is planning a patients care and D) Effector stage
is relating it to normal immune
response. In the effector stage, either the
During what stage of the immune re- antibody of the humoral re-
sponse should the nurse know that anti- sponse or the cytotoxic (killer) T
bodies or cytotoxic T cells combine and cell of the cellular response
destroy the invading microbes? reaches and couples with the
antigen on the surface of the
A) Recognition stage foreign invader.
B) Proliferation stage
C) Response stage
D) Effector stage
3. A nurse is planning the assessment of C) Women
a patient who is exhibiting signs and
symptoms of an autoimmune disorder. Many autoimmune diseases
The nurse should be aware that the in- have a higher incidence in fe-
cidence and prevalence of autoimmune males than in males, a
diseases is known to be higher among phenom-enon believed to be
what group? correlated with sex hormones.
A) Young adults
B) Native Americans
C) Women
D) Hispanics
4. Middle-aged adults are part of an age A) How lifestyle practices can
group that is known to be interested improve health
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in health and health promotion, and the
nurse is planning health promotion ac- B) How to eat healthier
tivities accordingly. To what
suggestions do members of this age C) How exercise can improve
group usually respond with your life
enthusiasm? Select all that apply.
Young and middle-aged adults
A) How lifestyle practices can improve represent an age group that not
health only expresses an interest in
health and health promotion but
B) How to eat healthier also responds enthusiastically
to suggestions that show how
C) How exercise can improve your life lifestyle practices can improve
health; these lifestyle practices
D) Strategies for adhering to prescribed include nutrition and exercise.
therapy Middle-aged adults may not re-
spond positively to teaching
E) Exercise for the aging aimed at the aging. Adherence
is not noted to be a desired fo-
cus in this age group.
5. A nurse has been working with Mrs. Grif- D) Mrs. Griffin
fin, a 71-year-old patient whose poorly
controlled type 1 diabetes has led to nu- American society places a
merous health problems. Over the past great importance on health and
several years Mrs. Griffin has had sev- the responsibility that each of
eral admissions to the hospital medical us has to maintain and promote
unit, and the nurse has often carried out our own health. Therefore, the
health promotion interventions. Who is other options are incorrect.
ultimately responsible for maintaining
and promoting Mrs. Griffins health?
A) The medical nurse
B) The community health nurse who has
also worked with Mrs. Griffin
C) Mrs. Griffins primary care provider
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D) Mrs. Griffin
6. An elderly female patient has come to B) Costs of the prescribed regi-
the clinic for a scheduled follow-up men
appoint-ment. The nurse learns from the
patients daughter that the patient is not Variables that appear to influ-
follow-ing the instructions she received ence the degree of adherence to
upon discharge from the hospital last a prescribed therapeutic reg-
month. What is the most likely factor imen include gender, race, edu-
causing the patient not to adhere to her cation, illness, complexity of the
therapeutic regimen? regimen, and the cost of treat-
ments.
A) Ethnic background of health care
provider
B) Costs of the prescribed regimen
C) Presence of a learning disability
D) Personality of the physician
7. A gerontologic nurse has observed that A) Demonstrate a dressing
patients often fail to adhere to a thera- change and allow the patient to
peutic regimen. What strategy should practice.
the nurse adopt to best assist an older
adult in adhering to a therapeutic The nurse must consider that
regimen in-volving wound care? older adults may have deficits in
the ability to draw infer-
A) Demonstrate a dressing change and ences, apply information, or un-
allow the patient to practice. derstand major teaching points.
Demonstration and practice are
B) Provide a detailed pamphlet on a essential in meeting their learn-
dressing change. ing needs.
C) Verbally instruct the patient how to
change a dressing and check for
compre-hension.
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D) Delegate the dressing change to a
trusted family member.
8. A 20-year-old man newly diagnosed with D) Patients culture
type 1 diabetes needs to learn how
to self-administer insulin. When plan- One of the major variables that
ning the appropriate educational inter- influences a patients readiness
ventions and considering variables that to learn is the patients culture,
will affect his learning, the nurse should because it affects how a person
prioritize which of the following factors? learns and what information is
learned.
A) Patients expected lifespan
B) Patients gender
C) Patients occupation
D) Patients culture
9. The nurse is planning to teach a D) Make the information directly
75-year-old patient with coronary artery relevant to the patients condi-
disease about administering her pre- tion.
scribed antiplatelet medication. How can
the nurse best enhance the patients abil- Studies have shown that older
ity to learn? adults can learn and remem-
ber if the information is paced
A) Provide links to Web sites that appropriately, relevant, and fol-
contain evidence-based information. lowed by appropriate feedback.
B) Exclude family members from the
ses-sion to prevent distraction.
C) Use color-coded materials that are
succinct and engaging.
D) Make the information directly relevant
to the patients condition.
10.