1. Question: What is the link between major depression and cortisol secretion?
2. Question: A patient has chronic anemia associated with chronic renal failure. What substance does the healthcare professional tell the patient is needed to treat this anemia
3. Question: What is the first indication...
a healthcare professional suspects a patient is brain dead how would
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NURS 6501 Week 11 Final Exam
(Summer Session)
Question 1 1 out of 1 points What is the link between major depression and cortisol secretion?
Selected Answer: Individuals with depression show that persistently elevated plasma cortisol levels
can result in inflammation that is believed to trigger depression.
Question 2 1 out of 1 points A patient has chronic anemia associated with chronic renal failure. What
substance does the healthcare professional tell the patient is needed to treat this anemia? Selected
Answer: Erythropoietin
Question 3 1 out of 1 points What is the first indication of nephrotic syndrome in children? Selected
Answer: Periorbital edema
Question 4 1 out of 1 points A patient is in the Emergency Department with heat stroke. What finding
does the healthcare provider associate with this condition? Selected Answer: Absence of sweating
despite a high core temperature
Question 5 1 out of 1 points Clinical manifestations that include irregular or heavy bleeding, the
passage of large clots, and the depletion of iron stores support which diagnosis? Selected
Answer: Abnormal uterine bleeding
Question 6 1 out of 1 points The health care professional is caring for a person who has a pathologic
fracture. The patient asks the professional to explain the condition. What response by the professional
is best? Selected Answer: A fracture that happens at the site of an abnormality already in that bone.
Question 7 1 out of 1 points A patient has a temporary displacement of two bones in a joint causing the
bone surfaces to partially lose contact with each other. What treatment does the health care
professional prepare the patient for? Selected Answer: Reduction and immobilization
Question 8 1 out of 1 points Cystic fibrosis is characterized by which symptom? Selected Answer:
Excessive mucus production
, Question 9 1 out of 1 points An infant has gluten-sensitive enteropathy and the parents ask the
healthcare professional to explain why the baby bruises so easily. The professional explains that the
baby has which deficit? Selected Answer: Vitamin K deficiency from fat malabsorption
Question 10 1 out of 1 points A healthcare professional advises a pregnant woman to add supplements
of which nutrient to her diet to prevent birth defects? Selected Answer: Folate
Question 11 1 out of 1 points A mother reports that her young teens have voracious appetites. The
healthcare professional would explain that which hormone is linked to an increase in appetite
during puberty? Selected Answer: Leptin
Question 12 1 out of 1 points Why is nasal congestion a serious threat to young infants? Selected
Answer: Infants are obligatory nose breathers.
Question 13 1 out of 1 points A student studying osteomyelitis and asks for an explanation of the term
sequestrum. What response by the professor is best? Selected Answer: An area of devascularized and
devitalized bone
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