NUR 2063 Pathophysiology Application Questions Final Exam
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1. A healthcare worker washes his/her hands before entering a patients room.
What type of disease prevention is this?: Primary Prevention
2. A 42 year old woman comes into the clinic for her annual Flu shot. What type of disease prevention is this?: Primary Prevention
3. A 21 year old comes in ...
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NUR 2063 Pathophysiology Application Questions Final Exam
1. A healthcare worker washes his/her hands before entering a patients
room.
What type of disease prevention is this?: Primary Prevention
2. A 42 year old woman comes into the clinic for her annual Flu shot. What
type of disease prevention is this?: Primary Prevention
3. A 21 year old comes in for her annual doctors check up, and the provider
says she will get a PAP smear done today. What type of disease
prevention is this?: Secondary Prevention
4. A diabetic comes into the lab for his 3 month check up on his HBA1C.
What type of prevention is this?: Secondary Prevention
5. After a code blue, a nurse says that her heart rate decreases, salvation
occurs, and her stomach starts to rumble. What response is her CNS in?:
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Parasympathetic response
6. A nurse notices her patient is not breathing and she calls a code blue. she
reports that during the time she felt her heart beat faster, her breathing get
faster, and that she could not empty her bladder. What response is her
CNS in?: Sympathetic response
7. This type of organelle is the control center and stores DNA and gene.
What type of organelle is it?: Nucleus
8. This type of organelle provides ATP to other cells and organelle. What
type of organelle is it?: Mitochondria
9. This type of organelle produces RNA and transcribes and translates DNA
and RNA. What type of organelle is it?: Ribosome
10. This type of organelle breaks down and digests dead cells, organelles
and tissues. What type of organelle is it?: Lysosome
11. This type of organelle is a folded membrane that helps move proteins
around the cell. What type of organelle is it?: Rough ER
12. This type of organelle helps to detoxify liver and kidney cells, lipid
metabolism and synthesis of hormones. What type of organelle is it?:
Smooth ER 13. This type of organelle contains oxidase and catalase for
breaking down hydrogen peroxide and metabolic wastes. What type of
organelle is it?: Peroxisome
14. This type of organelle helps the ER move things in and out of the cell.
What type of organelle is it?: Golgi body
15. A mom breastfeeds her 3 month old child. What type of immunity is the
mom passing onto her child through this act?: Passive immunity
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16. A mother brings her child in for the hepatitis B. vaccine. What type of
immunity is given through vaccinations?: Active immunity
17. A child begins to have an allergic reaction to a bee sting. What type of
hypersensitivity is it and what is the mediator?: Type 1 hypersensitivity, IgE
mediator
18. A child starts to develop red blisters, wheezing, and a runny nose after
eating a peanut butter sandwich. Name the mediator responsible for these
symptoms.: IgE mediator
19. Blood transfusion reactions occur when the wrong blood is given to a
patient, causing the blood to hemolyze and clump What is the
hypersensitivity responsible for this and the mediator?: Type 2
hypersensitivity, Cytotoxic mediator
20. A mom of a baby finds out the the baby has a positive blood type, while
the mom has a negative blood type, causing the babies blood cells to be
destroyed if Rhogam is not given to the mom. What type of mediator is
involved with this situation?: Cytotoxic mediator
21. Rheumatoid Arthritis and Lupus involve the immune system attacking
its own tissues. What type of hypersensitivity is this and what is the
mediator?-
: Type 3 hypersensitivity, Immune Complex mediator
22. A child is seen to have red bumps on their skin 2 days after a hiking
trip. The child said he accidentally ran into a bush. What type of
hypersensitivity is this and what is the mediator?: Type 4 hypersensitivity,
delayed cell mediator 23. A client comes in for a TB test for work. He is then
asked to come in 2 days later to have his test read. He questions why he has
to do this. Explain why he has to do this and the type of mediator involved.:
The cells responsible for the reaction are delayed and do not show up on the skin
until at least 48 hours after the test. Delayed cell mediator
24. A client finds a small tumor on her wrist that is spherical shaped and
moves when her wrist moves. She says that over the last 5 years that her
wrist went from nothing to a small coin size diameter for the tumor. What
type of tumor does the client most likely have?: Benign tumor
25. On her last mammogram, a 55 year old client is notified by her doctor
that there is a mass on her right breast that is irregularly shaped. What type
of tumor is this and should she be worried about it?: Malignant tumor. Yes
she should be worried as the tumor can grow rapidly and move to other areas of
the body.
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26. A client presents to the emergency room complaining of epigastric pain
and blood in his vomit. After lab work is done, the doctor says his H/H is
low.
What condition does this client have?: Peptic Ulcer disease. Gastric Ulcers.
27. A nursing student has to do a presentation on what causes Gastric
Ulcers. One bacteria that they may find that contributes to the condition and
thrives in an acidic environment is called?: H.Pylori
28. Kayla notices that one leg seems to be much more swollen than
another. She remembers that her albumin levels from her blood work from 2
days ago were low. What condition is Kayla experiencing?: Edema- from
accumulation of fluid in interstitial spaces
29. Angel just had surgery and reports to the nurse that 6 hours post
surgery she is not able to have a bowel movement yet. What condition is
Angel experiencing and what is the cause of it?: Functional Bowel Obstruction
-because of the surgery the anesthesia temporarily slows bowel movement
30. Asher reports to the nurse during shift change that he came in to fix
intussusception of his large intestine. The nurse knows that
intussusception is what type of condition?: Mechanical Bowel Obstruction
31. A young 15 year old girl comes into the ER with symptoms of dull,
stabbing pain in her right lower quadrant. The nurse thinks the girl might be
suffering from?: Appendicitis
32. The nurse thinks that her 30 year old male has appendicitis. She
performs a test to see if her suspicions are correct by pressing on certain
areas of the patients stomach, noting any pain upon removal of pressure .
What is the technique called that she is performing and what is the pain
called if the client has pain after removal of pressure?: McBurney's point,
Rebound tenderness 33. A nurse on a medical floor notices her new admit
has yellow stained eyes.
What condition results in yellow stained eyes?: Jaundice
34. Upon examination of a 50 year old male, the nurse notices the clients
abdomen is obtuse. The client tells the nurse that he has had liver disease
for the past 4 years. What is the name of the condition the client is
experiencing?: Ascites
35. A 34 year old starts experiencing signs of dementia 48 hours after
finding out he has liver disease from chronic alcohol use. The nurse wants
to figure out why he is acting like this, so she looks up his labs and sees a
high ammonia level. What condition is the client experiencing?: Hepatic
Encephalopathy 36. At a clinic, the nurse asks the patient for any surgical
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