NUR 2063/ NUR2063 Essentials of Pathophysiology Final Exam Quiz Bank| Best Rated | Latest 2022 / 2023| Rasmussen

NUR 2063/ NUR2063 Essentials of Pathophysiology Final Exam Quiz Bank| Best Rated | Latest 2022 / 2023| Rasmussen 1. A client who has just had contrast dye from a CT done tells the nurse a couple hours later that he cannot go pee like he did before the test. The nurse knows the type of cause for his AKI is: ~ Answer: Intrarenal- because he had contrast dye hours earlier 2. A client comes in for his chemotherapy session. What type of prevention is this? ~ Answer: Tertiary Prevention 3. A client is admitted because he has a tumor in his ureter constricting urine flow, causing AKI. What type of cause is the clients AKI? ~ Answer: Postrenal- since it is from an obstruction in the lower areas of the urinary system, causing damage to the kidneys. 4. A patient is on the surgical floor after getting metal screws in his broken leg. A nurse who is doing her assessment notices that the patients leg is swollen and pale. She tries to find a pulse and she cannot. The patient screams out in pain during the whole assessment. What conditions is the patient suffering from? ~ Answer: Compartment Syndrome 5. A patient is recently diagnosed with compartment syndrome. During shift change, the nurse tells the other nurse that they will be going to surgery that day to fix what might be causing it. What procedure is the patient going to be having today and is it emergent or not? ~ Answer: Fasciotomy, yes it is because increased pressure can lead to tissue death and ischemia. 6. A student nurse is taking an exam and is asked about the 5 p's of compartment syndrome. It is a select all that apply question. Out of these choices, which should she choose: pain, purple, pulselessness, paresthesia, pneumonia, pallor, paralysis, pulse, and pink ~ Answer: pain, pulselessness, paresthesia, pallor and paralysis 7. A client comes into the ER with a wound near her coccyx that is bleeding and deep. Her caretaker comes with and tells the triage nurse that she lives in a nursing home and she is bedridden and incontinent. What is the name for the wound the client has? ~ Answer: Pressure Ulcer 8. A student nurse is completing a care plan for the older adult who has a pressure ulcer. She wants to know what are some of the risk factors for pressure ulcers. What are some things that she can include in her care plan? ~ Answer: poor nutrition, dehydration, aging, immobility, sensory loss, bowel and bladder incontinence 9. A group of CNA's have to go to a in-service on preventing pressure ulcers. The chief nurse explains some common areas and techniques to prevent pressure ulcers with their residents. What are the places and techniques this nurse is explaining about ? ~ Answer: Places: any boney prominence, buttock, coccyx, elbows, heels, shoulders, back of head. 10. Prevent: turning patients every 2 hours, floating heels and elbows off bed, giving adequate nutrition and hydration, clean linens, using barrier cream, doing incontinence care, moving patients. 11. A client is bed bound on a unit, and the nurse notices a small amount of red skin that is non blanching on the clients buttock when doing her skin assessment. What type of pressure ulcer might this be? ~ Answer: Stage 1 pressure ulcer 12. A elderly client who is bed bound presents during incontinence care a small wound on the butt that has partial skin loss. What type of pressure ulcer is this? ~ Answer: Stage 2 pressure ulcer 13. A elderly client presents to the ER with a wound she has had for months which nursing staff at her skilled nursing facility could not cure. The wound has full tissue loss with visible fat. What stage is this pressure ulcer in? ~ Answer: Stage 3 pressure ulcer 14. A client has been in the ICU sedated for a week, but the nursing staff has not been turning them every 2 hours. The wound care nurse is called to assess this client because the wound on their coccyx is bleeding and exposes part of the bone. The wound care nurse determines this ulcer is in? ~ Answer: Stage 4 pressure ulcer 15. A student nurse was assigned to present a project to her clinical group on electrolytes. She needs to find out what are electrolyte reservoirs and which electrolytes are stored there. She knows she has the right answer when she can say: ~ Answer: Electrolyte reservoirs are where electrolytes are found at abundance in the bones Calcium, Phosphate and Magnesium are stored here.