A patient has defective secretion of the intrinsic factor leading to anemia. What treatment option
does the healthcare professional discuss with the patient?
Selected Answer: Vitamin B 12 injections initially given once a week.
Question 2
1 out of 1 points
A health care professional is teaching a group of college women about increasing calcium in the diet
to prevent osteoporosis. A participant asks at what age is peak bone mass is reached in women.
What response is best?
Selected Answer: 30
years
Question 3
1 out of 1 points
A healthcare professional in an urban clinic is seeing a patient who has iron deficiency anemia (IDA).
What question by the professional is most appropriate to assess for the cause of IDA?
Selected Answer: 1cHave you ever noticed any blood in your stool? 1d
Question 4
, 1 out of 1 points
How should the healthcare professional reply when parents question why a computed tomographic
(CT) scan of the head was not ordered for their 5-year-old child after a minor fall?
Selected Research suggests that repeated CT scans can increase the risk of developing
Answer: brain cancer.
Question 5
1 out of 1 points
A health care professional determines that the student needs more education when the student
makes which statement about treating bone infection?
Selected Bacteria are walled off by macrophages and T lymphocytes; consequently, the
Answer: antibiotics cannot penetrate the infected area.
Question 6
1 out of 1 points
Which statement by the professor best describes acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)?
Selected A pulmonary disease characterized by severe hypoxemia, decreased pulmonary
Answer: compliance, and the presence of bilateral infiltrates on chest x-ray imaging
Question 7
1 out of 1 points
What is the effect of low plasma albumin?
Selected Osmotic pressure decreases; thus water moves from the capillaries to the
Answer: interstitium.
Question 8
1 out of 1 points
A patient has been hospitalized with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). The patient asks how this could
have occurred. What response by the healthcare professional is best?
Selected Answer: It is often preceded by a viral illness.
Question 9
0 out of 1 points
, A student reads in a chart that a child has been diagnosed with mixed precocious puberty and asks
for an explanation. What explanation by the healthcare professional is most accurate?
Selected Answer: When early puberty has signs of physical and hormonal abnormalities
Question 10
0 out of 1 points
A patient reports joint stiffness with movement and joint pain in weightbearing joints that is usually
relieved by rest. What treatment option does the health care professional discuss with the patient?
Selected Answer: Ways to decrease serum uric acid
Question 11
1 out of 1 points
Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) system abnormalities exist in a large percentage of individuals
with what?
Selected Answer: Major
depression
Question 12
1 out of 1 points
Which statement by the healthcare professional accurately describes childhood asthma?
Selected An obstructive airway disease characterized by reversible airflow obstruction,
Answer: bronchial hyperreactivity, and inflammation
Question 13
0 out of 1 points
What does the student learn distinguishes kwashiorkor from marasmus?
Selected Answer: Physical growth of children is stunted in kwashiorkor but not in marasmus.
Question 14
1 out of 1 points
A patient has primary immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) and is hospitalized after a bleeding
episode. What treatment does the healthcare provider anticipate being ordered for this patient?
Selected Answer: Infusion of
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