NUR 6501NPatho Final corrected

•Question 1 1 out of 1 points
A patient has defective secretion of the intrinsic factor leading to anemia. What treatment option does
the healthcare professional discuss with the patient?

•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?

•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?

•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?

•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?

•Question 6 1 out of 1 points
Which statement by the professor best describes acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)?

•Question 7 1 out of 1 points
What is the effect of low plasma albumin?

•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?

•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?

•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?

 C) Exercise and weight reduction DX Osteoarthritis
•Question 11 1 out of 1 points
Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) system abnormalities exist in a large percentage of individuals with
what?

•Question 12 1 out of 1 points
Which statement by the healthcare professional accurately describes childhood asthma?

•Question 13 0 out of 1 points
What does the student learn distinguishes kwashiorkor from 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?