Practice Quiz

Question 1

Dysplasia is a stronger precursor to develop?

Answer 1

Cancer

Question 2

A nurse in the Emergency Department admits a patient who is experiencing frostbite to his hands and toes after being found outside is the snow bank. Which of the following phenomena caused the tissue damage?

Answer 2

Decreased blood flow has induced hypoxia.

Question 3

What deprives the cell of oxygen and interrupts oxidative metabolism and the generation of ATP?

Answer 3

Hypoxia

Question 4

What teratogen can cause cleft lip and palate?

Answer 4

Rubella

Question 5

With increasing age, there is a greater chance of a woman having been exposed to damaging environmental agents such as drugs, chemicals, and radiation. These factors may act on the aging oocyte to cause what in the fetus?

Answer 5

Down Syndrome

Question 6

Red blood cells contain a protein that is used to transport oxygen. What is the protein called?

Answer 6

Hemaglobin

Question 7

Which of the following foods should the nurse encourage the mother to offer to her child with iron deficiency anemia?

Answer 7

Legumes, broccoli, and turkey.

Question 8

A client with leukemia has neutropenia. Which function must frequently be assessed?

Answer 8

Breath Sounds

Question 9

Most of the coagulation factors are located in?

Answer 9

Liver

Question 10

A patient comes into the emergency department after being found in her house on a hot summer day. The patient is unresponsive and has a rectal temperature of 106.0 F. What interventions will help decrease the patient’s temperature? Select all that apply.

Answer 10

• Apply a cooling blanket on the patient.
• Apply ice packs in the patients neck, axilla, and groin.
• administer Tylenol

Question 11

A patient is diagnosed with anemia and was wondering what the difference was between anemia and thrombocytopenia? The nurse responds by stating?

Answer 11

Anemia is a decrease in red blood cells and thrombocytopenia is a decrease in platelets.

Question 12

Which of the following cells are first on scene when an injury has happened within the body?

Answer 12

Neutrophils

Question 13

What early signs and symptoms would you expect to see in a patient who has thrombocytopenia and who has developed a hemorrhage?

Answer 13

Tachycardia

Question 14

A child is diagnosed with thalassemia disorder. The nurse is educating the mother about this condition. The nurse should tell the mother that these two complications are common with individuals who have thalassemia disorder.

Answer 14

Chronic hypoxia and iron overload

Question 15

A 65-year-old male patient begins to bleed from his nose and IV site. Even with pressure on both sides the patient continues to bleed. Failure to clot is an indication of what?

Answer 15

A low platelet count

Question 16

A nurse should assess a patient with hemolytic anemia for weakness fatigue skin and mucous membrane pallor, and…

Answer 16

Jaundice

Question 17

Which of the following assessment and laboratory findings would be most closely associated with acute leukemia?

Answer 17

Increase in white blood cells and low-grade fever

Question 18

A patient is admitted with hemophilia A. Which of the following sports should the patient avoid?

Answer 18

Football
baseball
basketball

Question 19

A nurse is teaching a patient about thrombocytopenia and bleeding precautions. Which of the following should be included in the teaching plan?

Answer 19

• Blow your nose gently

- avoid rectal temperatures suppositories and examinations -avoid contact sports and activities potentially causing harm

Question 20

Disseminated intravascular coagulation is a grave coagulopathy resulting from overstimulation of clotting and anti-clotting processes in response to what?

Answer 20

OBGYN or septicemia