NUR 2063 Essentials of Pathophysiology Exam 1 Rasmussen

NUR 2063 Essentials of Pathophysiology Exam 1 Rasmussen

NUR 2063 Exam 1 Review

1. Which of the following assessment findings indicates an alteration in homeostatic control mechanisms?

2. Injury that occurs when blood flow is diminished to tissue is called injury.

3. The cancer growth continuum is divided into which of the following stages?

4. The activities of the cell are directed by which cell structure?

5. Enzymes that use oxidation to convert food materials into energy are found in sausage- shaped structures called:

6. A patient presents with hyponatremia. What is the priority assessment for the patient?

7. What is the priority assessment for a patient with a potassium imbalance?

8. A patient presents with hypomagnesemia, what would the nurse anticipate the calcium levels would be?

9. A patient presents with hypercalcemia. What would the nurse anticipate the phosphorous levels would be?

10. The nurse is teaching a patient who has recently given birth about immunity that has been passed to the baby in utero. Which statement by the patient indicates that additional teaching is needed?

11. In preparing a community teaching program, which information presented by the nurse addresses a type of secondary cancer prevention?

12. A 2-day post-op heart transplant patient begins to have fever and signs and symptoms of heart failure. The patient is more than likely experiencing which of the following?

13. Which of the following is a complication of chronic stress?

14. Within minutes after receiving an injection of penicillin, the patient complains of shortness of breath and chest pain. The nurse notifies the patient's healthcare provider because this patient is most likely experiencing which type of hypersensitivity?

15. During which of the following stages of the general adaptation syndrome (GAS) have the body's coping methods been completely utilized?

16. Which of the following is a chemical triggered by the sympathetic nervous system made from the adrenal medulla that is responsible for many of the physiological symptoms of the "fight or flight" response?

17. What disease state results from an inability to differentiate self from non-self?

18. Which of the following patients is at the greatest risk for impaired immune function?

19. The nurse is teaching a community health class about the immune system. The nurse asks the class to list various functions of B cells in immunity. Which responses by students are correct? (Select all that apply.)

20. Difference between a sign and a symptom

21. The two types of cells seen during a Type 1 hypersensitivity

22. Mantoux test

23. What is the etiology of gout?

24. A 17-year-old college-bound student receives a vaccine against an organism that causes meningitis. This is an example of

25. A disorder of unknown cause ? Idiopathic

26. Which of the following is a statement about disease pathogenesis?

27. An obese teen is given a prescription for a low-calorie diet and exercise program. This is an example of

28. When potassium intake is less than potassium output (or when potassium shifts from plasma into cells)

29. Intake of water and Na is less than output of water and Na

30. Avoid massive vitamin D supplementation and drink lots of fluids to prevent kidney damage

31. Besides immunity, what other function does the lymphatic system serve

32. Compounds released during stress

33. Which of the following statements about interferon is correct?

34. Which of the following is associated with specific immunity?

35. Injecting a vaccine of a dead or weakened pathogen imparts which type of immunity?

36. Normal potassium levels

37. What is the purpose of the stress response?

38. Holds 1/3 of the body's water

39. 135-145 mEq/L

40. Alarm stage of GAS

41. Which space does fluid enter to cause edema?

42. Treats hives, pruritis and swelling

43. Macrophage is a type of white blood cell which is a phagocyte.

44. Allergies are associated with elevated

45. What causes edema?

46. Oncogene is associated with the initiation of cancer

47. Gout is caused by the following:

48. Glucocorticoids reduce inflammation by

49. Wound edges that are approximated signify the wound is infected

50. Which of these exemplifies habituation?

51. Ecchymosis means

52. Purpura means

53. Tumors "new growth" not all are life threatening; benign or malignant- Describes

54. May be Primary Bone Cancer or Metastatic

55. Shingles is a disorder of herpes zoster and has which of the following clinical manifestations?

56. Distribution of fluid between interstitial and intracellular compartments occurs by

57. A patient describes nausea. What is this?

58. A simple lab test which can measure the level of inflammation in an individual is

59. The process by where we use hormones in the body to regulate equilibrium, when the body changes

60. Negative feedback

61. Positive feedback

62. What the four different parts of homeostasis

63. What are the levels of prevent?

64. Mitochondria

65. Osmosis

66. What are the fluid compartments?

67. Sign

68. Symptom

69. How is fluid between interstitial and intracellular compartments distributed?

70. Main complication of sodium imbalance

71. Main complication of calcium imbalance

72. How is fluid lost from the body?

73. How do we lose fluid from extracellular compartment?

74. What is potential and fatal complication of hyponatremia

75. Priority assessment for a patient with a potassium imbalance.

76. Symptoms of dehydration

77. Manifestations of fluid excess

78. Cause of edema

79. Extracellular fluid has higher concentration of which electrolytes/substances

80. The energy currency of a cell and role the mitochondrion plays in this currency

81. Three electrolytes that are stored in and impact bone and the relationship they have to each other

82. What happens during the alarm phase of Hans Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome?

83. What clinical findings would the patient in the fight or flight stage present with?

84. Signs of inflammation

85. Type 1 hypersensitivity mediator and its effect on the body

86. What do histamines do?

87. A lab test that can measure inflammation

88. What is metastasis?

89. Cachexia

90. What are the properties of cancer cells?

91. The effects of bone marrow suppression in cancer patients

92. What are example of benign cells

93. Steps in carcinogenesis

94. What are T lymphocytes and B lymphocytes?

95. What are macrophages?

96. Where are leukocytes and red blood cells formed

97. Best way to prevent the spread of infection

98. What compounds does the body release during stress?

99. Specific type of white blood cell found with type 1 hypersensitivity

100. Type 1 hypersensitivity

101. Type 2 hypersensitivity

102. Type 3 hypersensitivity

103. Type 4 hypersensitivity

104. Apoptosis

105. Carcinogenesis

106. Gangrene

107. Benign cell

108. Malignant

109. Cancer complications

110. General adaptation syndrome

111. Rheumatoid arthritis

112. Rheumatoid arthritis clinical manifestation

113. Conditions which result from excessive immune response

114. What is atopic dermatitis

115. What is contact dermatitis

116. What is psoriatic arthritis

117. What causes gout

118. Osteoporosis etiology

119. The best prevention for Pressure ulcers/injuries is to perform what intervention

120. Complications of compartment syndrome

121. The 5 P's of compartment syndrome

122. What is muscular dystrophy

123. What is Fibromyalgia

124. 1st degree burn

125. 2nd degree burn

126. 3rd degree burn

127. Simple fracture

128. Transverse Fracture

129. Oblique fracture

130. Spiral fracture

131. Comminuted fracture

132. Greenstick fracture

133. Compression fracture

134. Complete fracture

135. Incomplete fracture

136. Open fracture / Compound

137. Closed fracture

138. Impacted fracture

139. Pathologic fracture

140. Stress fracture

141. Depressed fracture

142. Shingles

143. Scabies

144. Complications of fractures

145. IgG

146. IgM

147. IgA

148. IgE

149. IgD

150. Complement

151. Prostaglandins

152. Etiology

153. Pathogenesis

154. Clinical manifestations

155. Glucose lab value

156. Sodium lab value

157. Potassium lab value

158. Chloride lab value

159. Calcium lab value