NUR 2063
Pathophysiology
Application Final Exam
- A healthcare worker washes his/her hands before entering a patients room. What
type of disease prevention is this?
Primary Prevention - A 42 year old woman comes into the clinic for her annual Flu shot. What type of
disease prevention is this?
Primary Prevention - A 21 year old comes in for her annual doctors check up, and the provider says she
will get a PAP smear done today. What type of disease prevention is this?
Secondary Prevention - A diabetic comes into the lab for his 3 month check up on his HBA1C. What type of
prevention is this?
Secondary Prevention - After a code blue, a nurse says that her heart rate decreases, salvation occurs, and
her stomach starts to rumble. What response is her CNS in?
Parasympathetic response - A nurse notices her patient is not breathing and she calls a code blue. she reports
that during the time she felt her heart beat faster, her breathing get faster, and that she
could not empty her bladder. What response is her CNS in?
Sympathetic response - This type of organelle is the control center and stores DNA and gene. What type of
organelle is it?
Nucleus - This type of organelle provides ATP to other cells and organelle. What type of
organelle is it?
Mitochondria - This type of organelle produces RNA and transcribes and translates DNA and RNA.
What type of organelle is it?
Ribosome - This type of organelle breaks down and digests dead cells, organelles and tissues.
What type of organelle is it?
Lysosome - This type of organelle is a folded membrane that helps move proteins around the
cell. What type of organelle is it?
Rough ER - This type of organelle helps to detoxify liver and kidney cells, lipid metabolism and
synthesis of hormones. What type of organelle is it?
Smooth ER - This type of organelle contains oxidase and catalase for breaking down hydrogen
peroxide and metabolic wastes. What type of organelle is it?
Peroxisome - This type of organelle helps the ER move things in and out of the cell. What type of
organelle is it?
Golgi body - A mom breastfeeds her 3 month old child. What type of immunity is the mom
passing onto her child through this act?
Passive immunity - A mother brings her child in for the hepatitis B. vaccine. What type of immunity is
given through vaccinations?
Active immunity - A child begins to have an allergic reaction to a bee sting. What type of
hypersensitivity is it and what is the mediator?
Type 1 hypersensitivity, IgE mediator - A child starts to develop red blisters, wheezing, and a runny nose after eating a
peanut butter sandwich. Name the mediator responsible for these symptoms.
IgE mediator - Blood transfusion reactions occur when the wrong blood is given to a patient,
causing the blood to hemolyze and clump What is the hypersensitivity responsible for
this and the mediator?