Week 1 Quiz What of the following remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide? Infectious disease Despite the wide scale implementation of progressive public health and immunization policies, infectious disease remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. Which statement about vaccines is true? Vaccines require booster injections to maintain lifelong protection. In general, vaccine-induced protection does not persist as long as infection-induced immunit...

Week 3 Quiz The underlying disorder of _____ anemia is defective secretion of intrinsic factor, which is essential for the absorption of vitamin B12. pernicious PA, the most common type of megaloblastic anemia, is caused by vitamin B12 deficiency. Symptoms of polycythemia vera are mainly the result of increased blood viscosity. As the disease progresses many of the symptoms are related to the increased blood cellularity and viscosity. In hemolytic anemia, jaundice occurs only...

Week 3 Quiz The underlying disorder of _____ anemia is defective secretion of intrinsic factor, which is essential for the absorption of vitamin B12. pernicious PA, the most common type of megaloblastic anemia, is caused by vitamin B12 deficiency. Symptoms of polycythemia vera are mainly the result of increased blood viscosity. As the disease progresses many of the symptoms are related to the increased blood cellularity and viscosity. In hemolytic anemia, jaundice occurs only...

Week 1 Quiz What of the following remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide? Infectious disease Despite the wide scale implementation of progressive public health and immunization policies, infectious disease remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. Which statement about vaccines is true? Vaccines require booster injections to maintain lifelong protection. In general, vaccine-induced protection does not persist as long as infection-induced immunit...

NR507 / NR 507: Advanced Pathophysiology Midterm Exam (2022/2023) Chamberlain College Of Nursing UPDATED

1. Types of immunity-e.g. innate, active, etc (ch 7 ,191)  Innate immunity includes two lines of defense: natural barriers and inflammation Natural barriers are physical, mechanical, and biochemical barriers at the body’s surfaces and are in place at birth to prevent damage by substances in the environment and thwart infection by pathogenic microorganisms.  the natural epithelial barrier and inflammation confer innate resistance and protection, commonly referred to as innate, native, ...

Epigenetics Defects in the encoding of histone-modifying proteins  Housekeeping Genes are vital to the function and maintenance of all the body’s cells. What characteristic is associated with these genes?

Tissue damage caused by the deposition of circulating immune complexes containing an antibody against the host DNA is the cause of which disease? Hemolytic anemia Pernicious anemia Systemic lupus erythematosus Myasthenia gravis Only the deposition of circulating immune complexes containing an antibody against the host DNA produce tissue damage in individuals with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Question 2 2 / 2 pts How does chest wall compliance...

A 64-year-old woman presents to the primary care office with shortness of breath, leg swelling, and fatigue. She has a history of type 2 diabetes and hypertension. She reports that recently she had been able to go for daily walks with her friends, but in the past month, the walks have become more difficult due to shortness of breath and fatigue. … also sometimes awakens in the middle of the night due to shortness of breath and has to prop herself up on three pillows. On physical examination, s...

Share with the class the name of your disease process assigned to you by your faculty this week. Tell us if this is a disease that you have encountered in caring for patients in your own nursing practice. Feel free to share a practice exemplar. If this is a completely new disease that you will learn about, tell us if it relates to your nursing practice in terms of the populations for which you care.