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NUR 148 FINAL 11. Which hormone changes does the nurse expect when a patient receives a continuous cortisol
infusion for 24 hours when the patient's negative feedback is normal?
Answer
-Lower than Normal adrenocorticotropic hormone ACTH levels
-Lower than normal corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH) levels.(NCLEX question page
1238.)
2. What issues does the RN expect in an older adult with age related changes?-
Answer
Decreased core body temperature, dehydration, hyperglycemia, and polyuria.
3. A young adult patient who is being seen in the clinic with excessive secretion of the
anterior pituitary hormones
what lab tests results should the nurse expect?
Answer
Increased urinary cortisol
4. Which statement made by a 50-year-old female patient indicated to the nurse further
assessment of thyroid function may be needed?
Answer
"I feel a lump in my throat when I swallow"
5. A patient seen in the ER for a severe headache and acute confusion has a serum sodium
level 118. The nurse should anticipate the need for which diagnostic test?
Answer
Antidiuretic hormone level.
6. This mineralocorticoid maintains extracellular fluid volume?
, Answer
Aldosterone
7. Which question from the nurse during a pt. interview gives information will provide focused
information about a possible thyroid disorder?
Answer
"Have you had a recent unplanned weight gain or loss?"
8. A patient admitted with pneumonia has a total calcium level of 13.3. What should the nurse
anticipate will be tested next?
Answer
Parathyroid hormone and calcitonin
9. What information will a review of a patient's glycosylated hemoglobin A1C results provide
to the nurse?
Answer
Average glucose level of the previous 120 days
10. This adrenal cortex produced glucocorticoids must be present for epinephrine and
norepinephrine action, and maintaining the normal excitability of the heart muscle?
Answer
cortisol
11. Stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system causes the release of the adrenal medullary
hormone?
Answer
catecholamines
12. Dietary intake of protein and iodine is required to produce thyroid hormones? True or
False?
Answer
True
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