NIGHTINGALE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY EVALUATION
EXAMS UPDATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE
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✔✔It controls clotting by breaking down fibrin - ✔✔What is the role of plasmin in the
inflammatory response cycle?
✔✔skin and mucous membranes - ✔✔Among the many innate defenses the body has
to pathogens, the first line of defense is the:
✔✔Interferon - ✔✔Which substance is released during a viral infection and signals
neighboring cells to enhance viral defenses?
✔✔Engulfment - ✔✔What term is used to describe the process of endocytosis?
✔✔Thymus - ✔✔DiGeorge syndrome is characterized by absence or underdevelopment
of which organ?
✔✔Women 20-40 years old - ✔✔You are planning a community teaching event about
systemic lupus eruthematosus (SLE). To which population should your teaching
primarily target?
, ✔✔Both parents could be carriers - ✔✔A couple has two offspring; one child has an
autosomal recessive disease trait and one is normal. What most likely conclusions can
the nurse make about the parents?
✔✔Lipids in the nerve cells of the brain - ✔✔When teaching staff Tay-Sachs disease,
which information should the nurse include? Tay-Sachs disease results in the
accumulation of:
✔✔Tissue damage by antioxidants - ✔✔Which statement by a nursing student indicates
the need for further teaching? Free radical injury can be caused by:
✔✔All of the above (Low birth weight, mental retardation, facial abnormalities) -
✔✔When an infant has been identified as having fetal exposure to alcohol, which
assessment parameters should be considered?
✔✔An individual who is heterozygous for a gene has: - ✔✔alleles at a given locus that
are different from one another.
✔✔The nurse is caring for a new mother who just gave birth to a baby with Down
syndrome. The nurse explains that this syndrome is a result of trisomy with which
chromosome? - ✔✔21 (the karyotype of an individual with Down syndrome shows
trisomy 21.)
✔✔When the clinician is discussing the DNA helix, which information should be
included? In the DNA helix, guanine pairs with: - ✔✔Cytosine
✔✔A nurse recalls that adaptive cellular mechanisms function is to: - ✔✔Protect cells
from injury
✔✔The geneticist is teaching a class that includes information about DNA. Which
information should be included? DNA contains: - ✔✔the genetic code for all parts of the
body.
✔✔What is the roll of plasmid in the inflammatory response cycle? - ✔✔It controls
clotting by breaking down fibrin.
✔✔A patient has a complement deficiency of C5 and C7. The nurse should monitor this
patient for infections caused by: - ✔✔Neisseria
✔✔What term does the nurse use to describe the exudate that is characterized by the
movement of watery fluid, containing few cells and little protein? - ✔✔Serous
EXAMS UPDATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE
A+
✔✔It controls clotting by breaking down fibrin - ✔✔What is the role of plasmin in the
inflammatory response cycle?
✔✔skin and mucous membranes - ✔✔Among the many innate defenses the body has
to pathogens, the first line of defense is the:
✔✔Interferon - ✔✔Which substance is released during a viral infection and signals
neighboring cells to enhance viral defenses?
✔✔Engulfment - ✔✔What term is used to describe the process of endocytosis?
✔✔Thymus - ✔✔DiGeorge syndrome is characterized by absence or underdevelopment
of which organ?
✔✔Women 20-40 years old - ✔✔You are planning a community teaching event about
systemic lupus eruthematosus (SLE). To which population should your teaching
primarily target?
, ✔✔Both parents could be carriers - ✔✔A couple has two offspring; one child has an
autosomal recessive disease trait and one is normal. What most likely conclusions can
the nurse make about the parents?
✔✔Lipids in the nerve cells of the brain - ✔✔When teaching staff Tay-Sachs disease,
which information should the nurse include? Tay-Sachs disease results in the
accumulation of:
✔✔Tissue damage by antioxidants - ✔✔Which statement by a nursing student indicates
the need for further teaching? Free radical injury can be caused by:
✔✔All of the above (Low birth weight, mental retardation, facial abnormalities) -
✔✔When an infant has been identified as having fetal exposure to alcohol, which
assessment parameters should be considered?
✔✔An individual who is heterozygous for a gene has: - ✔✔alleles at a given locus that
are different from one another.
✔✔The nurse is caring for a new mother who just gave birth to a baby with Down
syndrome. The nurse explains that this syndrome is a result of trisomy with which
chromosome? - ✔✔21 (the karyotype of an individual with Down syndrome shows
trisomy 21.)
✔✔When the clinician is discussing the DNA helix, which information should be
included? In the DNA helix, guanine pairs with: - ✔✔Cytosine
✔✔A nurse recalls that adaptive cellular mechanisms function is to: - ✔✔Protect cells
from injury
✔✔The geneticist is teaching a class that includes information about DNA. Which
information should be included? DNA contains: - ✔✔the genetic code for all parts of the
body.
✔✔What is the roll of plasmid in the inflammatory response cycle? - ✔✔It controls
clotting by breaking down fibrin.
✔✔A patient has a complement deficiency of C5 and C7. The nurse should monitor this
patient for infections caused by: - ✔✔Neisseria
✔✔What term does the nurse use to describe the exudate that is characterized by the
movement of watery fluid, containing few cells and little protein? - ✔✔Serous
