NURS 239 Exams (100% correct answers)

Pathogenesis correct answers how a disease develops Etiology correct answers cause of disease Etiologies may be caused by correct answers Physical - heat, injury etc Chemical - exposure to chemicals Biological - genetics Nutritional - food reactions or deficiencies etc acute disease corr...

Your patient has a hemmorrhagic stroke with frontal lobe damage, what will this affect in the patient? correct answers poor judgement, flat affect Patient has a spinal cord injury due to a MVA and their upper motor neurons are affected, how will the patient present? correct answers spastic Gla...

What is Nursing Assessment? correct answers Using all your senses to collect and validate data. How you communicate (verbal/nonverbal) How the nurse identifies client problems and issues An ongoing process What is the Nursing Process? correct answers Assessment Diagnosis Elicious - Expected...

Therapeutic Classification correct answers Usually reflect the conditions for which the drugs are used (antidepressants) Prototype correct answers Individual drug the represents a group of drugs; usually the first drug of a particular drug class to be developed Generic Name correct answers rel...

mental status exam correct answers LOC, awake, coma, lethargic cranial nerves correct answers Commonly PERRLA assessed motor function correct answers Involuntary tremors, strength reflex activity correct answers Reflexes, babinskis, clonus sensory function correct answers Pain, temp, tou...

An emergency room nurse is assessing a client who sustained a blunt injury to the chest wall. Which of these signs and symptoms would you not find in this client? correct answers closed or foiled chest The nurse is assessing the client with fractures of the ribs, 4,5, and 6 on the left side. Asse...

Penicillin G *** correct answers - First PCN given PO and IM - PO only about 1/3 of dose is absorbed - IM and IV are most effective (to get therapeutic serum level) (IM is painful) - primarily bactericidal Penicillin V *** correct answers - next type produced - 2/3 absorbed by GI tract, less...

Cardinal Sings of Local Inflammation correct answers - redness - heat - pain - swelling - loss of function vascular stage of acute inflammation correct answers Comprised of increase blood flow and increased vascular permeability - Microcirculation (arterioles, capillaries, venules) - P...

Normal glucose level correct answers <100 mg/dL fasting Normal platelet count correct answers 150,000-400,000 Normal LDL level correct answers <130 mg/dL Normal HDL level correct answers <40 too low; >60 too high Normal total cholesterol level correct answers <200 mg/dL ...

Pharmacology correct answers study of the effects of chemical substances on living tissues Drug therapy correct answers used to prevent, diagnose, treat, treat signs and symptoms, and cure disease local effect correct answers sunscreen or anesthetics systemic effect correct answers circulat...

What does a Transient Ischemic attack warn of? correct answers impending stroke: "brain angina" Levadopa action correct answers precursor to dopamine, converted in brain and peripheral tissue to dopamine Levadopa contraindications correct answers glaucoma, caution with heart, renal, liver, e...

Pathogenesis: correct answers how the disease evolves Etlology: correct answers the cause of disease Signs: correct answers objective manifestation that is noted by an observer, what can be seen by the nurse Symptoms correct answers subjective complaint that is by the person with the disord...

Upon admission assessment, the nurse hears a murmur located at the fifth intercostal space, midclavicular line. The client asks, "What does that mean?" The nurse will base her answer on which of the following physiologic principles? correct answers "You have a heart valve that is diseased." A...

Absorption: correct answers how it gets into the system/ movement of the drug from the GI tract to the body by passive and active absorption or pinocytosis Passive Absorption: correct answers via diffusion (higher to lower concentration) Active Absorption: correct answers requires a carrier su...