NURS 6501 ADVANCED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY MIDTERM 4 LATEST VERSIONS EACH VERSION WITH 100 QS AND ANS 400 MIDTERM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS / NURS 6501 MIDTERM EXAM WALDEN UNIVERSITY| AGRADE

NURS 6501 ADVANCED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY MIDTERM 4 LATEST VERSIONS EACH VERSION WITH 100 QS AND ANS 400 MIDTERM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS / NURS 6501 MIDTERM EXAM WALDEN UNIVERSITY| AGRADE

NURS 6501 ADVANCED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY MIDTERM 4

LATEST VERSIONS 2026 -2026 EACH VERSION WITH 100

QS AND ANS 400 MIDTERM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT

ANSWERS / NURS 6501 MIDTERM EXAM WALDEN

UNIVERSITY| AGRADE

VERSION 1

• Question 1

1 out of 1 points

A patient has defective secretion of the intrinsic factorleading to anemia. What treatment option

does the healthcare professional discuss with the patient?

Selected Answer: Vitamin B 12 injections initially given once a week.

• 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?

Selected Answer: 30

years

• 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?

Selected Answer: 1cHave you ever noticed any blood in your stool? 1d

• 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?

Selected

Answer:

Research suggests that repeated CT scans can increase the risk of developing

brain cancer.

• 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?

Selected

Answer:

Bacteria are walled off by macrophages and T lymphocytes; consequently, the

antibiotics cannot penetrate the infected area.

• Question 6

1 out of 1 points

Which statement by the professor best describes acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)?

Selected

Answer:

A pulmonary disease characterized by severe hypoxemia, decreased pulmonary

compliance, and the presence of bilateral infiltrates on chest x-ray imaging

• Question 7

1 out of 1 points

What is the effect of low plasma albumin?

Selected

Answer:

Osmotic pressure decreases; thus water moves from the capillaries to the

interstitium.

• 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?

Selected Answer: It is often preceded by a viral illness.

• 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?

Selected Answer: When early puberty has signs of physical and hormonal abnormalities

• 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?

Selected Answer: Ways to decrease serum uric acid

• Question 11

1 out of 1 points

Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA)system abnormalities exist in a large percentage of individuals

with what?

Selected Answer: Major

depression

• Question 12

1 out of 1 points

Which statement by the healthcare professional accurately describes childhood asthma?

Selected

Answer:

An obstructive airway disease characterized by reversible airflow obstruction,

bronchial hyperreactivity, and inflammation

• Question 13

0 out of 1 points

What does the student learn distinguishes kwashiorkor from marasmus?

Selected Answer: Physical growth of children is stunted in kwashiorkor but not in 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?

Selected Answer: Infusion of

IVIG

• Question 15

0 out of 1 points

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 most appropriate?

Selected Answer: Assessthe man's recent sexual history.

• Question 16

1 out of 1 points

What is the role of thromboxane A (TXA 2) in the secretion stage of hemostasis?

Selected Answer: Stimulates platelet aggregation.

• Question 17

1 out of 1 points

A woman who is positive for hepatitis B is in labor. What action by the healthcare professional

is most appropriate?

Selected Answer: Immunize the newborn within 12 hours.

• Question 18

1 out of 1 points

A person has been diagnosed with primary dysmenorrhea and wants to know why ibuprofen is a

good choice for pain control. What response by the health care professional is best?

Selected Answer: It reduces the production of prostaglandins in your body.

• Question 19

1 out of 1 points

A preschool teacher notices a child who has burrows on the handsthat are several millimeters to 1

cm long, papules, and vesicular lesions. What other assessment finding would help the teacher

determine the type of infestation the child has?

Selected Answer: Ask the child if itching occurs especially at night.

• Question 20