1. Question: A patient is in severe shock and is receiving vasopressin. A student asks the health care professional to explain the rationale for this treatment. What response by the professional is the most accurate?
2. Question: What are blood pressure variations associated with?
3. Question: A ...
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NURS 6501 Week 6 Midterm Exam
Question 50 1 out of 1 points
A patient is in severe shock and is receiving vasopressin. A student asks the health care professional
to explain the rationale for this treatment. What response by the professional is most accurate?
Selected Answer: Antidiuretic hormone causes vasoconstriction to help increase blood
pressure.
Question 51 1 out of 1 points
What are blood pressure variations associated with?
Selected Answer: The renin-angiotensin system's effect on vasoconstriction
Question 52 1 out of 1 points
A person wants to know if eating only plant-based foods is advisable as a way to cut cholesterol to
nearzero levels. What response by the health care professional is best?
Selected Answer: No, many hormones are made from cholesterol.
Question 53 1 out of 1 points
A student asks why some vaccinations are given orally and some are given by injection. What
response by the professor is best?
Selected Answer: Eachroute stimulates a differently mphocyte-containing tissue, resulting in
different types of cellular and humoral immunity.
Question 54 1 out of 1 points
A healthcare professional is working with a person who drinks several 6- packs of beer a week. What
testing does the professional encourage the person to get?
Selected Answer: Hepatic function
Question 55 1 out of 1 points
Within a physiologic range, what does an increase in left ventricular end- diastolic volume (preload)
, result in?
Selected Answer: Decrease in repolarization
Question 56 1 out of 1 points
People diagnosed with neurofibromatosis have varying degrees of the condition because of which
genetic principle?
Selected Answer: Expressivity
Question 57 1 out of 1 points
The data reporting that sickle cell disease affects approximately 1 in 600 American blacks is an
example of which concept?
Selected Answer: Incidence prevalence ratio risk
Question 58 1 out of 1 points
A person has hypothyroidism. What chemical does the healthcare professional advise the
person to include in the diet?
Selected Answer: Iodine
Question 59 1 out of 1 points
A patient has been diagnosed with a renal stone. Based on knowledge of common stone types, what
selfcare measure does the healthcare professional plan to teach the patient when stone analysis has
returned?
Selected Answer: Ingest 1000 mg of calcium a day.
Question 60 1 out of 1 points
A professor has taught a student about skeletal alterations seen in chronic kidney disease.
Which statement by the student indicates the professor needs to give more information?
Selected Answer: The effectiveness of calcium and phosphate resorption from bone is
impaired.
Question 61 1 out of 1 points
What pathologic change occurs to the kidney's glomeruli as a result of hypertension?
Selected Answer: Ischemia of the tubule
Question 62 1 out of 1 points
A professor has taught the students about the sources of increased ammonia in patients with
hepatic encephalopathy. What statement by a student indicates the professor should review this
material?
Selected Answer: Accumulation of short-chain fatty acids are a source of increased ammonia.
Question 63 1 out of 1 points
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