Fairleigh Dickinson University

NURS 2210

Quiz 2 questions:

1)A female client with a history of chronic renal failure has a total serum calcium level of 7.9 mg/dL. While performing an assessment, the nurse should focus on which of the following clinical manifestations associated with this calcium level?

2. Following yearly routine physical examination by the health care provider, a client has been diagnosed with upper body obesity along with central fat distribution. The client is at greater risk for developing which of the following disease processes?

3. A female client experienced a random assault several months earlier, and her recent vigilance around her own safety is described as “obsessive” by her friends and family. Which of the following aspects of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) characterizes the client's behavior?

4. When educating students about the differences between brown fat versus white fat, the instructor will share that brown fat has iron in its mitochondria that will facilitate:

5. Which of the following scenarios place the client at a high risk for developing hypoparathyroidism and require close supervision for assessing for development of muscle cramps, carpopedal spasm, convulsions, and paresthesia in the hands and feet? Select all that apply.

6. A frail, 87-year-old female client has been admitted to a hospital after a fall and has been diagnosed with failure to thrive. Which of the following laboratory values would suggest that the client may be experiencing malnutrition?

7. As other mechanisms prepare to respond to a pH imbalance, immediate buffering is a result of increased:

8. From the following list of physical assessment results, which would be interpreted as the client has developed obesity?

9. Hypoparathyroidism causes hypocalcemia by:

1. 1. A client with a diagnosis of liver cirrhosis secondary to alcohol abuse has a distended abdomen as a result of fluid accumulation in his peritoneal cavity (ascites). Which of the following pathophysiologic processes contributes to this third spacing?

12. While assessing a teenage girl suspected of having bulimia nervosa, the health care provider may find which of the following clinical manifestations that would confirm the diagnosis? Select all that apply.

1. 1. A client is brought to the emergency department semicomatose and a blood glucose reading of 673. He is diagnosed with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). Blood gas results are as follows: serum pH 7.29 and HCO₃^– level 19 mEq/dL; PCO₂ level 32 mm Hg. The nurse should anticipate that which of the following orders may correct this diabetic ketosis?

14. 1. A client develops interstitial edema as a result of decreased:
15. Of the following clients, which would be at highest risk for developing hyperkalemia?