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Advanced Med-Surg Principles Jersey
College Mid-Term Exam With Answers
(2025)
Ch 39: What is used to control edema following an arthoscopy? - correct -answer-
- compression
- elevation
- joint extension
Ch 39: What are two complicants following an arthoscopy? - correct -answer--
infection
- bleeding
Ch 42: What are the clinical manifestations of a PE (pulmonary embolism)? -
correct -answer-- chest pain
- cough
- dyspnea (difficult or labored breathing)
- hypoxemia (below-normal level of oxygen in your blood)
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- tachycarida (HR > 100 bpm)
- tachypnea (fast breathing)
- petechiae (red, brown or purple spots on the skin)
- restlessness
Ch 42: What do you obtain if the pt presents with confusion, restlessness, and
irritability in the setting of a facture? - correct -answer-ABGs (arterial blood gases)
Ch 42: What would you encourage after a wrist fracture? - correct -answer-ROM
(range of motion) to the fingers and shoulder of fracture wrist
Ch 42: Avascular necrosis may follow joint dislocations if? - correct -answer-- the
bone injury impairs perfusion
- leads to unresolved ischemia
Ch 42: What do you use to manage phantom limb pain? - correct -answer-opiods
(this is actual pain that is felt after an amputation)
Ch 42: How do you treat tissue injury? - correct -answer-- with rest
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- ice
- compression
- elevation during the first 72 hrs to limit inflammation and promote healing
Ch 42: What does Buck's traction do for a fracture? - correct -answer-- helps
decrease pain
- helps decrease muscle spasms
- immobilizes the fracture
Ch 15: Tumor markers (ex: CEA, CA 125) are monitored to help determined the
effectivenss of what? - correct -answer-chemotherapy
Ch 15: With cancer what would you educate a pt to avoid/do? - correct -answer--
carcinogens (smoking)
- limit alcohol
- limit caloric intake
- increasing activity level
- use sunscreen with a min of SPF 15
- limit sun exposure
- use condoms
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Ch 15: When should you screen for cancer? - correct -answer-- annual
mammogram starting at age 40
- colonoscopy at age 50, then every 10 yrs
- annual fecal occult blood test at age 50
- prostate specific antigen at age 50
- pap test evey 3 yrs
Ch 15: Why is staging of a tumor done? - correct -answer-to communicate the size
of the tumor, if lymph nodes are involved, and if there is merastasis
Ch 15: What can extravasation of a vesicant (the leakage of certain drugs called
vesicants out of a vein into the tissue around it) result in? - correct -answer-tissue
necrosis so never use the hand or wrist and prevent extravastion by confirming
patency of IV device
Ch 15: What is used in cancer pts to decrease nausea and vomiting? - correct -
answer-- seratonin receptor blockers (ondansetron, granisetron)
- dopaminergic receptor blockers (metoclopramide, prochlorperazine)
- bland foos
- small, fequent meals
Advanced Med-Surg Principles Jersey
College Mid-Term Exam With Answers
(2025)
Ch 39: What is used to control edema following an arthoscopy? - correct -answer-
- compression
- elevation
- joint extension
Ch 39: What are two complicants following an arthoscopy? - correct -answer--
infection
- bleeding
Ch 42: What are the clinical manifestations of a PE (pulmonary embolism)? -
correct -answer-- chest pain
- cough
- dyspnea (difficult or labored breathing)
- hypoxemia (below-normal level of oxygen in your blood)
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- tachycarida (HR > 100 bpm)
- tachypnea (fast breathing)
- petechiae (red, brown or purple spots on the skin)
- restlessness
Ch 42: What do you obtain if the pt presents with confusion, restlessness, and
irritability in the setting of a facture? - correct -answer-ABGs (arterial blood gases)
Ch 42: What would you encourage after a wrist fracture? - correct -answer-ROM
(range of motion) to the fingers and shoulder of fracture wrist
Ch 42: Avascular necrosis may follow joint dislocations if? - correct -answer-- the
bone injury impairs perfusion
- leads to unresolved ischemia
Ch 42: What do you use to manage phantom limb pain? - correct -answer-opiods
(this is actual pain that is felt after an amputation)
Ch 42: How do you treat tissue injury? - correct -answer-- with rest
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- ice
- compression
- elevation during the first 72 hrs to limit inflammation and promote healing
Ch 42: What does Buck's traction do for a fracture? - correct -answer-- helps
decrease pain
- helps decrease muscle spasms
- immobilizes the fracture
Ch 15: Tumor markers (ex: CEA, CA 125) are monitored to help determined the
effectivenss of what? - correct -answer-chemotherapy
Ch 15: With cancer what would you educate a pt to avoid/do? - correct -answer--
carcinogens (smoking)
- limit alcohol
- limit caloric intake
- increasing activity level
- use sunscreen with a min of SPF 15
- limit sun exposure
- use condoms
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Ch 15: When should you screen for cancer? - correct -answer-- annual
mammogram starting at age 40
- colonoscopy at age 50, then every 10 yrs
- annual fecal occult blood test at age 50
- prostate specific antigen at age 50
- pap test evey 3 yrs
Ch 15: Why is staging of a tumor done? - correct -answer-to communicate the size
of the tumor, if lymph nodes are involved, and if there is merastasis
Ch 15: What can extravasation of a vesicant (the leakage of certain drugs called
vesicants out of a vein into the tissue around it) result in? - correct -answer-tissue
necrosis so never use the hand or wrist and prevent extravastion by confirming
patency of IV device
Ch 15: What is used in cancer pts to decrease nausea and vomiting? - correct -
answer-- seratonin receptor blockers (ondansetron, granisetron)
- dopaminergic receptor blockers (metoclopramide, prochlorperazine)
- bland foos
- small, fequent meals
