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NURS245 - Week 12 (UNIT 4) Questions
and Answers (Expert Solutions)
Q: What is a common S&S of an anemic patient after surgery, 🗹🗹: fatigue
Q: Common S&S of pernicious anemia, 🗹🗹: -smooth sore red tongue
-weakness
Q: RN teaching for warning signs of cancer, 🗹🗹: -thickening of breast tissue in one
area
-indigestion regardless of food eaten
-increase pigmentation with deeper coloring
-difficult starting stream of urine for the past 6 months
-heavy nose bleeds without trauma induced
Q: When a patient has low iron levels, what are dietary teaching recommendations?,
🗹🗹: -red meat
-egg yolk
-legumes
Q: What is a normal effect of an iron supplement that may concern patients if not
warned?, 🗹🗹: Black stool
Q: An RN working with oncology patients, knows what is an age related change that
happens with susceptibility, 🗹🗹: decrease immune function
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Q: What is the area of the body mainly affected in early Hodgkins?, 🗹🗹: Neck
Q: Greatest risk for a Non-Hodgkins patient to develop TLS (tumor lysis syndrome) is...,
🗹🗹: .while undergoing both radiation and chemotherapy
Q: Patient is receiving chemo through IV site, what is the main nursing intervention?,
🗹🗹: Assess IV site and check for blood return every hour
Q: Reed-Sternburg cells are present in which condition, 🗹🗹: Hodgkins disease
Q: TNM in chart: TIS N0 M0
-What does this mean?, 🗹🗹: No distant metastasis
Q: Biggest risk factor for developing cancer, 🗹🗹: age
Q: A cancer patient has thrombocytopenia - secondary to chemotherapy - what lab will
the nurse monitor closely?, 🗹🗹: Platelets
Q: A bladder cancer patient is receiving chemo, platelet count is 20,000. What S&S
should the nurse monitor for?, 🗹🗹: Petechiae
Q: A Hodgkin disease pt is receiving chemo, WBC is 2. Is this higher than normal,
normal, or lower than normal, 🗹🗹: lower than normal
Q: A patient is admitted to try rule out Hodgkins, what is a question you could ask the
patient to help with the Dx process, 🗹🗹: "Have you noticed swelling/enlargement in
your lymph nodes"
Q: A patient with leukemia (low WBC), the WBC is 2, what dietary teaching should you
tell them to avoid?, 🗹🗹: avoid eating raw fruit/veggies
NURS245 - Week 12 (UNIT 4) Questions
and Answers (Expert Solutions)
Q: What is a common S&S of an anemic patient after surgery, 🗹🗹: fatigue
Q: Common S&S of pernicious anemia, 🗹🗹: -smooth sore red tongue
-weakness
Q: RN teaching for warning signs of cancer, 🗹🗹: -thickening of breast tissue in one
area
-indigestion regardless of food eaten
-increase pigmentation with deeper coloring
-difficult starting stream of urine for the past 6 months
-heavy nose bleeds without trauma induced
Q: When a patient has low iron levels, what are dietary teaching recommendations?,
🗹🗹: -red meat
-egg yolk
-legumes
Q: What is a normal effect of an iron supplement that may concern patients if not
warned?, 🗹🗹: Black stool
Q: An RN working with oncology patients, knows what is an age related change that
happens with susceptibility, 🗹🗹: decrease immune function
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Q: What is the area of the body mainly affected in early Hodgkins?, 🗹🗹: Neck
Q: Greatest risk for a Non-Hodgkins patient to develop TLS (tumor lysis syndrome) is...,
🗹🗹: .while undergoing both radiation and chemotherapy
Q: Patient is receiving chemo through IV site, what is the main nursing intervention?,
🗹🗹: Assess IV site and check for blood return every hour
Q: Reed-Sternburg cells are present in which condition, 🗹🗹: Hodgkins disease
Q: TNM in chart: TIS N0 M0
-What does this mean?, 🗹🗹: No distant metastasis
Q: Biggest risk factor for developing cancer, 🗹🗹: age
Q: A cancer patient has thrombocytopenia - secondary to chemotherapy - what lab will
the nurse monitor closely?, 🗹🗹: Platelets
Q: A bladder cancer patient is receiving chemo, platelet count is 20,000. What S&S
should the nurse monitor for?, 🗹🗹: Petechiae
Q: A Hodgkin disease pt is receiving chemo, WBC is 2. Is this higher than normal,
normal, or lower than normal, 🗹🗹: lower than normal
Q: A patient is admitted to try rule out Hodgkins, what is a question you could ask the
patient to help with the Dx process, 🗹🗹: "Have you noticed swelling/enlargement in
your lymph nodes"
Q: A patient with leukemia (low WBC), the WBC is 2, what dietary teaching should you
tell them to avoid?, 🗹🗹: avoid eating raw fruit/veggies
