NSG120 CERTIFICATION EVALUATION
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED APLUS
●● Which type of injury does the nurse report in a person who steps on a
nail?
A. Avulsion
B. Laceration
C. Puncture wound
D. Incisional wound
Answer: C. Puncture wound
●● Which term would the nurse use to describe a patient's fingernail
bed?
A. Matrix
B. Paronychia
C. Eponychium
D. Hyponychium
Answer: D. hyponychium
●● Which term would the nurse use to describe a person's nonspecific
response to noxious stimuli?
,A. Stressor
B. Resistance
C. Allostatic overload
D. General adaptation syndrome
Answer: D. General adaptation syndrome
●● Which population is MOST likely to have cystic fibrosis?
A. Asian
B. African
C. European
D. Middle eastern
Answer: C. European
●● Which information would the nurse include when teaching a prenatal
class about antibodies present in a new mother's colostrum?
A. The antibodies provide active immunity against diseases
B. The antibodies provide systemic immunity against diseases
C. The antibodies provide protection against respiratory infection
D. The antibodies provide protection against gastrointestinal infection
Answer: D. The antibodies provide protection against gastrointestinal
infection
,●● Which information would the nurse include when teaching about
scabies? Select all that apply.
A. There are three types that include Pediculus humanus capitis,
Pediculus humanis corporis, and Pthirus pubis
B. The causative mite is a blood-sucking, nocturnal parasite of humans
C. The condition is characterized by burrows and papules
D. It is a common skin infection in crowded and tropical settings
E. Scabies are similar to fleas
Answer: C. The condition is characterized by burrows and papules
D. It is a common skin infection in crowded and tropical settings
●● Which term would the nurse use to describe the condition of a person
who has an overactivation of adaptive regulatory physiologic response to
stress?
A. Stressors
B. Resistance
C. Allostatic overload
D. Physiologic stress
Answer: C. Allostatic overload
●● Which response would the nurse give when a person states, "I have a
sore throat, and it's very red. Why is it red?"?
A. The cells that line your throat are doing a healing process called
regeneration
, B. More platelets are moving from your blood vessels into the lining of
your throat
C. Your blood vessels in the area have relaxed to allow more blood into
the area to promote healing
D. Chemical messengers from your inflamed throat put out a distress
signal that brings more white blood cells to the area
Answer: C. Your blood vessels in the area have relaxed to allow more
blood into the area to promote healing
●● Which type of microorganism is Candida albicans?
A. Virus
B. Fungus
C. Parasite
D. Bacteria
Answer: B. Fungus
●● Which result does the nurse observe when reviewing arterial blood
results in a person who has acidosis?
A. excess of base
B. pH less than 7.35
C. pH greater than 7.45
D. decrease in hydrogen ion concentration
Answer: B. pH less than 7.35
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED APLUS
●● Which type of injury does the nurse report in a person who steps on a
nail?
A. Avulsion
B. Laceration
C. Puncture wound
D. Incisional wound
Answer: C. Puncture wound
●● Which term would the nurse use to describe a patient's fingernail
bed?
A. Matrix
B. Paronychia
C. Eponychium
D. Hyponychium
Answer: D. hyponychium
●● Which term would the nurse use to describe a person's nonspecific
response to noxious stimuli?
,A. Stressor
B. Resistance
C. Allostatic overload
D. General adaptation syndrome
Answer: D. General adaptation syndrome
●● Which population is MOST likely to have cystic fibrosis?
A. Asian
B. African
C. European
D. Middle eastern
Answer: C. European
●● Which information would the nurse include when teaching a prenatal
class about antibodies present in a new mother's colostrum?
A. The antibodies provide active immunity against diseases
B. The antibodies provide systemic immunity against diseases
C. The antibodies provide protection against respiratory infection
D. The antibodies provide protection against gastrointestinal infection
Answer: D. The antibodies provide protection against gastrointestinal
infection
,●● Which information would the nurse include when teaching about
scabies? Select all that apply.
A. There are three types that include Pediculus humanus capitis,
Pediculus humanis corporis, and Pthirus pubis
B. The causative mite is a blood-sucking, nocturnal parasite of humans
C. The condition is characterized by burrows and papules
D. It is a common skin infection in crowded and tropical settings
E. Scabies are similar to fleas
Answer: C. The condition is characterized by burrows and papules
D. It is a common skin infection in crowded and tropical settings
●● Which term would the nurse use to describe the condition of a person
who has an overactivation of adaptive regulatory physiologic response to
stress?
A. Stressors
B. Resistance
C. Allostatic overload
D. Physiologic stress
Answer: C. Allostatic overload
●● Which response would the nurse give when a person states, "I have a
sore throat, and it's very red. Why is it red?"?
A. The cells that line your throat are doing a healing process called
regeneration
, B. More platelets are moving from your blood vessels into the lining of
your throat
C. Your blood vessels in the area have relaxed to allow more blood into
the area to promote healing
D. Chemical messengers from your inflamed throat put out a distress
signal that brings more white blood cells to the area
Answer: C. Your blood vessels in the area have relaxed to allow more
blood into the area to promote healing
●● Which type of microorganism is Candida albicans?
A. Virus
B. Fungus
C. Parasite
D. Bacteria
Answer: B. Fungus
●● Which result does the nurse observe when reviewing arterial blood
results in a person who has acidosis?
A. excess of base
B. pH less than 7.35
C. pH greater than 7.45
D. decrease in hydrogen ion concentration
Answer: B. pH less than 7.35
