NURS254
Exams 2: NUR 254 | Galen College | 2025
Complete Maternal & Pediatric Nursing Grade
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1. What is formal leadership?: legit authority
position of power
2. What is informal leadership?: their influence is their personality
status
personal skills
3. What are different types of power?: legitimate power coercive power
reward power expert power
connection
informational
4. What management style should you use in emergencies?:
authoritative
5. What is plaque?: An elevated solid lesion (>5 mm in diameter)
6. What is a pustule?: elevated serous filled vesicle with fluid inside
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7. What is a vesicle?: A fluid-filled, very small (<0.5mm), elevated
lesion
8. What is pruritis?: Itching of the skin related to excessive dryness or
sweating
9. What is urticaria?: Hives
sign of a reaction
10. What does calcitrol do? (active form of vit d): increases calcium
uptake in the intestines
11. What does parathyroid hormone do?: Facilitates calcium into
bloodstream
puts calcium from the bone into the blood (resorption)
12. What does calcitonin do?: puts calcium from the blood into the
bones (bones ABSORB calcium)
promotes bone mineralization
13. What does thyroid hormone do?: increases bone resorption
14. What does cortisol do?: increased bone resorption
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15. . What does estrogen do?: stimulates osteoblast
inhibits osteoclasts
16. what does testosterone do?: stimulates musculoskeletal
growth
17. What is the difference between isometric and isotonic
movement?:
18. What is isotonic movement?: ROM movements walking
any movement with muscles contracting
19. What is isometric movement?: no movement, but you are
engaging muscles kegels planks
wall sits
20. What are the 6 P's of neurovascular status?: Pain
Polar (temp of skin)
Pulse
Paresthesia (decreased sensation)