NUR 1211 MEDICAL SURGICAL 2026 RENAL
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NURSING CARE PRACTICE RESOURCE
◉ A nurse is planning a patients care and is relating it to normal
immune response. During what stage of the immune response
should the nurse know that antibodies or cytotoxic T cells combine
and destroy the invading microbes?
A) Recognition stage
B) Proliferation stage
C) Response stage
D) Effector stage
Answer: D) Effector stage
In the effector stage, either the antibody of the humoral response or
the cytotoxic (killer) T cell of the cellular response reaches and
couples with the antigen on the surface of the foreign invader.
◉ A nurse is planning the assessment of a patient who is exhibiting
signs and symptoms of an autoimmune disorder. The nurse should
,be aware that the incidence and prevalence of autoimmune diseases
is known to be higher among what group?
A) Young adults
B) Native Americans
C) Women
D) Hispanics
Answer: C) Women
Many autoimmune diseases have a higher incidence in females than
in males, a phenomenon believed to be correlated with sex
hormones.
◉ Middle-aged adults are part of an age group that is known to be
interested in health and health promotion, and the nurse is planning
health promotion activities accordingly. To what suggestions do
members of this age group usually respond with enthusiasm? Select
all that apply.
A) How lifestyle practices can improve health
B) How to eat healthier
C) How exercise can improve your life
,D) Strategies for adhering to prescribed therapy
E) Exercise for the aging
Answer: A) How lifestyle practices can improve health
B) How to eat healthier
C) How exercise can improve your life
Young and middle-aged adults represent an age group that not only
expresses an interest in health and health promotion but also
responds enthusiastically to suggestions that show how lifestyle
practices can improve health; these lifestyle practices include
nutrition and exercise. Middle-aged adults may not respond
positively to teaching aimed at the aging. Adherence is not noted to
be a desired focus in this age group.
◉ A nurse has been working with Mrs. Griffin, a 71-year-old patient
whose poorly controlled type 1 diabetes has led to numerous health
problems. Over the past several years Mrs. Griffin has had several
admissions to the hospital medical unit, and the nurse has often
carried out health promotion interventions. Who is 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
D) Mrs. Griffin
Answer: D) Mrs. Griffin
American society places a great importance on health and the
responsibility that each of us has to maintain and promote our own
health. Therefore, the other options are incorrect.
◉ An elderly female patient has come to the clinic for a scheduled
follow-up appointment. The nurse learns from the patients daughter
that the patient is not following the instructions she received upon
discharge from the hospital last month. What is the most likely
factor causing the patient not to adhere to her therapeutic regimen?
A) Ethnic background of health care provider
B) Costs of the prescribed regimen
AND FLUID ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCE
NURSING CARE PRACTICE RESOURCE
◉ A nurse is planning a patients care and is relating it to normal
immune response. During what stage of the immune response
should the nurse know that antibodies or cytotoxic T cells combine
and destroy the invading microbes?
A) Recognition stage
B) Proliferation stage
C) Response stage
D) Effector stage
Answer: D) Effector stage
In the effector stage, either the antibody of the humoral response or
the cytotoxic (killer) T cell of the cellular response reaches and
couples with the antigen on the surface of the foreign invader.
◉ A nurse is planning the assessment of a patient who is exhibiting
signs and symptoms of an autoimmune disorder. The nurse should
,be aware that the incidence and prevalence of autoimmune diseases
is known to be higher among what group?
A) Young adults
B) Native Americans
C) Women
D) Hispanics
Answer: C) Women
Many autoimmune diseases have a higher incidence in females than
in males, a phenomenon believed to be correlated with sex
hormones.
◉ Middle-aged adults are part of an age group that is known to be
interested in health and health promotion, and the nurse is planning
health promotion activities accordingly. To what suggestions do
members of this age group usually respond with enthusiasm? Select
all that apply.
A) How lifestyle practices can improve health
B) How to eat healthier
C) How exercise can improve your life
,D) Strategies for adhering to prescribed therapy
E) Exercise for the aging
Answer: A) How lifestyle practices can improve health
B) How to eat healthier
C) How exercise can improve your life
Young and middle-aged adults represent an age group that not only
expresses an interest in health and health promotion but also
responds enthusiastically to suggestions that show how lifestyle
practices can improve health; these lifestyle practices include
nutrition and exercise. Middle-aged adults may not respond
positively to teaching aimed at the aging. Adherence is not noted to
be a desired focus in this age group.
◉ A nurse has been working with Mrs. Griffin, a 71-year-old patient
whose poorly controlled type 1 diabetes has led to numerous health
problems. Over the past several years Mrs. Griffin has had several
admissions to the hospital medical unit, and the nurse has often
carried out health promotion interventions. Who is 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
D) Mrs. Griffin
Answer: D) Mrs. Griffin
American society places a great importance on health and the
responsibility that each of us has to maintain and promote our own
health. Therefore, the other options are incorrect.
◉ An elderly female patient has come to the clinic for a scheduled
follow-up appointment. The nurse learns from the patients daughter
that the patient is not following the instructions she received upon
discharge from the hospital last month. What is the most likely
factor causing the patient not to adhere to her therapeutic regimen?
A) Ethnic background of health care provider
B) Costs of the prescribed regimen
