Nur 155 exam Galen over 340 Questions and answers
Graded A+ 2025/2026
Nur 155 exam Galen over 340 Questions and answers
Graded A+ 2025/2026
1. **Aldosterone**
*Increased amounts of water and sodium in the bloodstream (ADH secreted).*
2. **Hyperkalemia**
*Excessive potassium in the blood, over 5.0; the heart will be tight and contracted.*
3. **Hypervolemia**
*High volume in the blood, overhydration (water follows sodium); symptoms include
bounding pulse, SOB, dyspnea, rales/crackles, peripheral edema.*
4. **Primary prevention**
*Efforts to prevent injury or illness from ever occurring, e.g., vaccines.*
5. **Secondary prevention**
*Efforts to limit effects of injury or illness that cannot be completely prevented, e.g.,
screening and check-ups.*
6. **Tertiary prevention**
*Treating the illness, e.g., rehab and support groups.*
7. **Total care**
*Consider all principles applicable to all clients, e.g., what’s specific to each patient.*
,8. **Individual care**
*Consider the client as an individual, e.g., a client with ADHD or a child.*
9. **Holism**
*Treat a person as a whole, understanding how one area affects the whole (e.g.,
stress from family affecting blood sugar in diabetes).*
10. **Health promotion**
*The process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health.*
11. **Health protection**
*Motivated by the desire to avoid illness.*
12. **Acute illness**
*Rapidly occurring illness with a course less than 6 months; vitals are often higher
than normal, e.g., flu.*
13. **Chronic illness**
*Gradual onset, ongoing, involving loss or abnormality of body functions, lasting
longer than 6 months, e.g., cancer.*
14. **BMI 18.5**
*Underweight.*
15. **BMI 18.5-24.9**
*Normal/healthy weight.*
,16. **BMI 25.0-29.9**
*Overweight.*
17. **BMI 30.0-34.9**
*Stage 1 obesity.*
18. **BMI 35.0-39.9**
*Stage 2 obesity.*
19. **BMI 40.0+**
*Morbid obesity.*
20. **Polyuria**
*Excessive urination.*
21. **Disuresis**
*Abnormal increase in urine production, can be caused by medications.*
22. **Oliguria**
*Scanty urination.*
23. **Nocturia**
*Excessive urination at night, more than 2 times a night.*
24. **Retention of bladder**
*Bladder not emptying due to impairment.*
, 25. **Normal urine output**
*30 mL/hr.*
26. **Normal pH of urine**
*4.5-8.0.*
27. **Steatorrhea**
*Fat in the feces.*
28. **Fecal impaction**
*Collection of hardened feces in the rectum that cannot be passed but may cause
loose stool leakage.*
29. **Flatulence**
*Gas in stomach or intestines, farting.*
30. **Most at risk for colon cancer**
*African Americans (US) and Europeans (worldwide).*
31. **Foods that increase phosphate**
*Beans, dairy, lentils.*
32. **Signs and symptoms of hypervolemia**
*Bounding pulse, increased heart rate, SOB, weight gain, high BP, kidney
dysfunction, crackles, dyspnea.*
33. **Adduction and abduction**
Graded A+ 2025/2026
Nur 155 exam Galen over 340 Questions and answers
Graded A+ 2025/2026
1. **Aldosterone**
*Increased amounts of water and sodium in the bloodstream (ADH secreted).*
2. **Hyperkalemia**
*Excessive potassium in the blood, over 5.0; the heart will be tight and contracted.*
3. **Hypervolemia**
*High volume in the blood, overhydration (water follows sodium); symptoms include
bounding pulse, SOB, dyspnea, rales/crackles, peripheral edema.*
4. **Primary prevention**
*Efforts to prevent injury or illness from ever occurring, e.g., vaccines.*
5. **Secondary prevention**
*Efforts to limit effects of injury or illness that cannot be completely prevented, e.g.,
screening and check-ups.*
6. **Tertiary prevention**
*Treating the illness, e.g., rehab and support groups.*
7. **Total care**
*Consider all principles applicable to all clients, e.g., what’s specific to each patient.*
,8. **Individual care**
*Consider the client as an individual, e.g., a client with ADHD or a child.*
9. **Holism**
*Treat a person as a whole, understanding how one area affects the whole (e.g.,
stress from family affecting blood sugar in diabetes).*
10. **Health promotion**
*The process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health.*
11. **Health protection**
*Motivated by the desire to avoid illness.*
12. **Acute illness**
*Rapidly occurring illness with a course less than 6 months; vitals are often higher
than normal, e.g., flu.*
13. **Chronic illness**
*Gradual onset, ongoing, involving loss or abnormality of body functions, lasting
longer than 6 months, e.g., cancer.*
14. **BMI 18.5**
*Underweight.*
15. **BMI 18.5-24.9**
*Normal/healthy weight.*
,16. **BMI 25.0-29.9**
*Overweight.*
17. **BMI 30.0-34.9**
*Stage 1 obesity.*
18. **BMI 35.0-39.9**
*Stage 2 obesity.*
19. **BMI 40.0+**
*Morbid obesity.*
20. **Polyuria**
*Excessive urination.*
21. **Disuresis**
*Abnormal increase in urine production, can be caused by medications.*
22. **Oliguria**
*Scanty urination.*
23. **Nocturia**
*Excessive urination at night, more than 2 times a night.*
24. **Retention of bladder**
*Bladder not emptying due to impairment.*
, 25. **Normal urine output**
*30 mL/hr.*
26. **Normal pH of urine**
*4.5-8.0.*
27. **Steatorrhea**
*Fat in the feces.*
28. **Fecal impaction**
*Collection of hardened feces in the rectum that cannot be passed but may cause
loose stool leakage.*
29. **Flatulence**
*Gas in stomach or intestines, farting.*
30. **Most at risk for colon cancer**
*African Americans (US) and Europeans (worldwide).*
31. **Foods that increase phosphate**
*Beans, dairy, lentils.*
32. **Signs and symptoms of hypervolemia**
*Bounding pulse, increased heart rate, SOB, weight gain, high BP, kidney
dysfunction, crackles, dyspnea.*
33. **Adduction and abduction**
