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1. Question: When completing this exam, did you comply with Walden University’s Code of Conduct including the expectations for academic integrity?
2. Question: 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?
3. Question: A child has Duchenne muscular dystrophy. What complication does the healthcare professional teach the parents is most important to control?
4. Question: A baby is born with a myelomeningocele and needs urgent surgery to repair the defect. The parents want to take the baby home instead. What does the healthcare professional tell the parents about the purpose of this surgery?
5. Question: A student is learning about pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). What information does the student clarify with a study partner as being correct?
6. Question: A patient had a seizure that consisted of impaired consciousness and the appearance of a dreamlike state. How does the healthcare professional chart this episode?
7. Question: Which spinal tract carries the most nociceptive information?
8. Question: Which condition is considered a clinical cause of amenorrhea?
9. Question: What is the role of thromboxane A (TXA ₂) in the secretion stage of hemostasis?
10. Question: A patient has been diagnosed with lithium toxicity. Which electrolyte imbalance does the healthcare professional correlate with this condition?
11. Question: An infant has been diagnosed with intussusception and the student asks the healthcare professional to explain the condition. What explanation by the professional is mostaccurate?
12. Question: A student reads in a chart that a baby was born with an encephalocele. The student asks the healthcare professional to explain this condition. What explanation by the healthcare professional is best?
13. Question: Clinical manifestations that include irregular or heavy bleeding, the passage of large clots, and the depletion of iron stores support which diagnosis?
14. Question: A healthcare professional advises a pregnant woman to add supplements of which nutrient to her diet to prevent birth defects?
15. Question: 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?
16. Question: 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?
17. Question: A child has osteosarcoma and the healthcare team is assessing for metastases. What diagnostic study would be the priority?
18. Question: Which condition is consistent with the cardiac defect of transposition of the great vessels?
19. Question: A patient is 8 hours postoperative after a long orthopedic procedure. The student asks why this patient is at particular risk of developing a thromboembolism. What response by the healthcare professional is best?
20. Question: An infant has gluten-sensitive enteropathy and the parents ask the healthcare professional to explain why the baby bruises so easily. The professional explains that the baby has which deficit?
21. Question: A patient is in the intensive care unit and has intercranial pressure (ICP) monitoring. The patient’s ICP is 17 mmHg. The healthcare professional notes that the chart indicates the patient is now in stage 1 intracranial hypertension. What assessment finding does the professional associate with this condition?
22. Question: What congenital malformation is commonly linked to acute leukemia in children?
23. Question: 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?
24. Question: The student asks the professor for a definition of orexigenic neurons. What description by the professor is mostaccurate?
25. Question: A newborn baby displays jaundice 20 hours after birth. What action by the healthcare professional is mostappropriate?
26. Question: How is gonorrhea transmitted from a pregnant woman to her fetus?
27. Question: Which statement by the healthcare professional accurately describes childhood asthma?
28. Question: A healthcare professional works with recent refugees. A mother brings in her children who have been diagnosed with iron deficiency anemia. What action by the professional is mostappropriate?
29. Question: Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) system abnormalities exist in a large percentage of individuals with what?
30. Question: A patient has a spinal cord injury at C4. What should the healthcare professional assess as the priority in this patient?
31. Question: A child has scoliosis with a 40-degree curvature of the spine, and the parent is worried about pulmonary involvement. What statement by the healthcare professional is mostappropriate?
32. Question: What is the most abundant class of plasma protein?
33. Question: What is the effect of low plasma albumin?
34. Question: A healthcare professional has educated a student on folic acid. Which statement by the student indicates that more teaching is needed?
35. Question: In acute hypothermia, what physiologic change shunts blood away from the colder skin to the body core in an effort to decrease heat loss?
36. Question: Which mother does the healthcare professional prepare to administer Rh immune globulin (Rho-GAM) to?
37. Question: 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?
38. Question: 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 mostaccurate?
39. Question: A patient has damage to the lower pons and medulla. What finding does the healthcare professional associate with this injury?
40. Question: 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?
41. Question: A hospitalized patient’s lab work is as follows: WBC 2000, bands 14.8%, and segmented neutrophils 5. The healthcare professional calculates the patient’s absolute neutrophil count (ANC). What action does the professional take next?
42. Question: What is the link between major depression and cortisol secretion?
43. Question: 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?
44. Question: What does the student learn distinguishes kwashiorkor from marasmus?
45. Question: A healthcare professional suspects a patient is brain dead. How would the professional assess for brain death?
46. Question: 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?
47. Question: What causes the vasomotor flushes (hot flashes) that are associated with declining ovarian function with age?
48. Question: 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?
49. Question: A student asks the healthcare professional why researchers are trying to link specific genes to specific asthma phenotypes. What response by the professional is best?
50. Question: Compared with an adult, an infant has a greater content of extracellular fluid, as well as a greater rate of fluid exchange. What effect does this have on the fluid balance of a child compared with that of an adult?
51. Question: A 7 year-old-child presents to the clinic where parents report signs and symptoms consistent with asthma. What does the healthcare professional do in order to confirm this diagnosis?
52. Question: A newborn has meconium ileus. What diagnostic test does the healthcare professional advise the parents about?
53. Question: A healthcare professional is teaching a community group about inherited disorders. What pattern of inheritance does the professional describe for sickle cell disease?
54. Question: A professor explains to a class that the reason lymph nodes enlarge and become tender during infection is because of what reason?
55. Question: In the majority of children experiencing delayed puberty, what is the problem caused by?
56. Question: A healthcare professional is caring for a patient diagnosed with aphasia. What action by the professional would be best in working with this patient?
57. Question: Local signs and symptoms of Hodgkin disease-related lymphadenopathy are a result of what?
58. Question: A person has been diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) that is positive for the Philadelphia chromosome. What statement by the healthcare professional is mostappropriate?
59. Question: Which statement by the professor best describes acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)?
60. Question: When are childhood cancers most often diagnosed?
61. Question: 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?
62. Question: 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?
63. Question: 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?
64. Question: A patient reports frequent nightmares. For which of these should the healthcare professional assess the patient?
65. Question: Which immunoglobulin (Ig) is present in childhood asthma?
66. Question: A child has cystic fibrosis (CF). Which medication does the healthcare professional teach the parents about?
67. Question: A healthcare professional is discussing breast feeding with a pregnant woman. Which beneficial substance does the professional tell the mother is found in breast milk?
68. Question: A patient reports small, vesicular lesions that last between 10 and 20 days. What treatment does the healthcare professional educate the patient about?
69. Question: 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?
70. Question: A healthcare professional is planning a community event to reduce risk of cerebrovascular accident (CVA) in high risk groups. Which group would the professional target as the priority?
71. Question: A patient has been hospitalized for a large deep vein thrombosis and states he is the third person in his family to have this condition in the last 2 years. What response by the healthcare professional is most appropriate?
72. Question: Which cells function to maintain bone matrix?
73. Question: Gait disturbances and instability are characteristic of which form of cerebral palsy?
74. Question: A health care professional is caring for a patient admitted to the hospital with severe anorexia. What action by the health care professional would be mostimportant?
75. Question: A student asks the professor what the most common pathophysiologic process is that triggers aplastic anemia (AA). What response by the professor is mostaccurate?
76. Question: 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?
77. Question: What is the first indication of nephrotic syndrome in children?
78. Question: A patient has defective secretion of the intrinsic factor leading to anemia. What treatment option does the healthcare professional discuss with the patient?
79. Question: A woman attempting to conceive tells the healthcare professional that she and her partner have intercourse when her basal body temperature (BBT) is around 37˚C (98˚F) without getting pregnant. What information does the professional give the woman?
80. Question: The student wants to know how the clinical manifestations and onset of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) differ from those of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in adults. What answer by the healthcare professional is best?
81. Question: 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?
82. Question: A patient in the healthcare clinic reports fatigue, weakness, and dyspnea, as well as pale conjunctiva of the eyes and brittle, concave nails. What assessment by the healthcare professional is most appropriate for the suspected anemia?
83. Question: A student asks the professor to explain the jaundice that accompanies hemolytic anemia. Which statement is by the professor is most accurate?
84. Question: A patient has ankylosing spondylitis. Which description of this condition by the health care professional is mostaccurate?
85. Question: A patient in the hospital has been receiving heparin injections. The platelet count on admission was 222,000/mm ³ and four days later is 113,000/mm ³. What action by the healthcare professional is best?
86. Question: Which bones are affected in Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease?
87. Question: A man reports to the healthcare professional that he had a sudden onset of malaise, low back pain, and perineal pain with high fever and chills, dysuria, nocturia, and urinary retention. What action by the healthcare professional is mostappropriate?
88. Question: Which hospitalized patient does the healthcare professional assess as a priority for the development of delirium?
89. Question: What is the primary pathologic alteration resulting from ankylosing spondylitis (AS)?
90. Question: A criterion for a diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a period of excessive worrying that lasts for at least how many months?
91. Question: A patient has chronic anemia associated with chronic renal failure. What substance does the healthcare professional tell the patient is needed to treat this anemia?
92. Question: A student studying osteomyelitis and asks for an explanation of the term sequestrum. What response by the professor is best?
93. Question: Prenatal exposure to diethylstilbestrol (DES) can result in which type of cancer?
94. Question: A person has a vascular anomaly associated with a congenital malformation of dermal capillaries and has been told this lesion does not fade with age. What treatment options can the healthcare professional discuss with this person?
95. Question: Which patient finding would lead the health care professional to assess the patient for inflammatory joint disease?
96. Question: A man has balanitis. What action by the healthcare professional is mostappropriate?
97. Question: A patient has hepatomegaly, bronze-colored skin, and cardiac dysrhythmias. What condition does the healthcare professional prepare to teach the patient about?
98. Question: An infant has a continuous machine-type murmur best heard at the left upper sternal border throughout systole and diastole. The healthcare professional suspects a congenital heart disorder. What other assessment finding is inconsistent with the professional’s knowledge about this disorder?
99. Question: A health care professional determines that the student needs more education when the student makes which statement about treating bone infection?
100. Question: To quickly assess a patient’s nervous system for dysfunction, what assessment should the healthcare professional perform as the priority?
101. Question: In which stage of syphilis would the following clinical manifestations be found: destructive skin, bone and soft tissue lesions, aneurysms, heart failure, and neurosyphilis?