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Test Exam - Week 11 Final
Question 1
A woman diagnosed with trichomoniasis asks if her sexual partner should be treated as well. What is the appropriate response by the healthcare professional?
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Question 2
Sexual partners should be treated even if they are asymptomatic.
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An infant is brought to the emergency department by parents who report that the baby's fontanels seem to be bulging outward. What action by the healthcare provider
is most appropriate?
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Question 3
Measure the head circumference and plot it on a growth
chart.
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A patient has polycythemia vera and presents to the Emergency Department with plethora and neurological changes. The student asks the healthcare professional to explain the primary cause of these symptoms. What response by the professional is best?
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Increased blood viscosity
Question 4
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When are childhood cancers most often diagnosed?
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Question 5
At peak times of physical growth
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A severely malnourished patient is in the hospital to improve nutrition. On the second day, the patient reports palpitations and difficulty breathing. After placing the patient on a cardiac monitor, what action does the health care professional take next?
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Have lab drawn for electrolyte levels.
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What is the link between major depression and cortisol secretion?
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Individuals with depression show that persistently elevated plasma cortisol levels can result in inflammation that is believed to trigger depression.
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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?
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• Question 9
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The disruption in cellular adhesion observed in bullous impetigo is caused by an exfoliative toxin related to which organism?
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Staphylococcus aureus
• Question 10
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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?
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Lepti n
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What diagnosis is given to parents when their infant's hip maintains contact with the acetabulum but is not well seated within the hip joint?
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Subluxated hip
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The healthcare professional directs a student to assess a teen who has Osgood-Schlatter disease. What assessment finding does the student anticipate for this disorder?
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Tendinitis of the anterior patellar tendon
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What are the clinical manifestations of testicular cancer?
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A patient is in status epilepticus. In addition to giving medication to stop the seizures, what would the healthcare professional place highest priority on?
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Providing oxygen
• Question 18
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A health care professional determines that the student needs more education when the
student makes which statement about treating bone infection?
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Bacteria are walled off by macrophages and T lymphocytes; consequently, the antibiotics cannot penetrate the infected area.
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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?
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years
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What is the link between major depression and cortisol secretion?
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Individuals with depression show that persistently elevated plasma cortisol levels can result in inflammation that is believed to trigger depression.
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A student asks the professor to explain the jaundice that accompanies hemolytic anemia. Which statement is by the professor is most accurate?
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Heme destruction exceeds the liver's ability to conjugate and excrete bilirubin.
A child has Duchenne muscular dystrophy and the parents want to know how this occurred. Which statement by the healthcare professional is most accurate?
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X-linked recessive inheritance
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What is the role of thromboxane A (TXA 2 ) in the secretion stage of hemostasis?
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Stimulates platelet aggregation.
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A healthcare professional is educating a community men's group on symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The professional relates that most symptoms are a result of which pathophysiologic condition?
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Compression of the urethra
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A student studying osteomyelitis and asks for an explanation of the term sequestrum. What response by the professor is best?
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An area of devascularized and devitalized bone
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A child with acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis is voiding smoky, brown-colored urine and asks the healthcare professional to explain what causes it. What explanation by the professional is best?
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Presence of red blood cells
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fusion of IVIG
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What is the consequence of a splenectomy?
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The number of defective cells in circulation increases.
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Gait disturbances and instability are characteristic of which form of cerebral palsy?
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Ataxi x
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A person has been diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) that is positive for the Philadelphia chromosome. What statement by the healthcare professional is most appropriate?
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1cThis is a very rare finding in adults who have ALL. 1d
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A patient in the clinic had a femur x-ray that was read as having a moth-eaten appearance. What treatment option does the health care professional discuss with the patient?
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Limb-salvaging surgery
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Local signs and symptoms of Hodgkin disease-related lymphadenopathy are a result of what?
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Without prior exposure to an antigen, which cells are able to destroy some types of tumor cells and some virus-infected cells?
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Natural killer (NK) cells
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Which hospitalized patient does the healthcare professional assess as a priority for the development of delirium?
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An elderly male on the second day after hip replacement
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What does the student learn distinguishes kwashiorkor from marasmus?
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Subcutaneous fat, hepatomegaly, and fatty liver are present in kwashiorkor.
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The healthcare professor states that a patient has reached pain tolerance. What further information from the professor is most accurate?
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The patient cannot endure a higher level of pain intensity at this point.
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A healthcare professional is caring for a patient who was rewarmed after suffering from hypothermia. What possible long-term complication will the professional continue to assess the patient for?
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?
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A fracture that happens at the site of an abnormality already in that bone.
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A student asks the health care professional why obese people are at higher risk for
hypertension than non-obese individuals. What response by the professional is best?
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They produce more angiotensinogen.
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A healthcare professional is caring for a patient who has a spinal cord injury at T5. The patient exhibits severe hypertension, a heart rate of 32 beats/min, and sweating above the spinal cord lesion. How does the professional chart this event?
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Autonomic hyperreflexia
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What is the most abundant class of plasma protein?
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Albumin
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A healthcare professional is reviewing a patient's laboratory results and sees that the patient has a low reticulocyte count and a high iron level. Which type of anemia does the professional associate these findings with?
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Folate deficiency anemia
