NR 283 FINAL EXAM NEWEST 2024-2025

• | P a g e

NR 283 FINAL EXAM NEWEST 2024-2025

ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 100

QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED

ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)

|ALREADY GRADED A+ (CHAMBERLAINE

COLLEGE OF NURSING)

NR 283 PATHO FINAL EXAM

Systemic effects of rheumatoid arthritis are manifested as:

• nodules in various tissues, severe fatigue, and anorexia
• headache, leukopenia, and high fever.
• swelling and dysfunction in many organs.
• progressive damage to a joint. - CORRECT ANSWER -a.

nodules in various tissues, severe fatigue, and anorexia

What is a common effect of long-term use of glucocorticoids to treat rheumatoid arthritis?

• / 4

• | P a g e

• Leukocytosis
• Osteoporosis
• Severe anemia
• Orthostatic hypotension - CORRECT ANSWER -b.

Osteoporosis

A patient with rheumatoid arthritis asks the nurse what is the main problem happening inside my body to cause this. The nurse responds "it is a

• Degenerative disorder involving the small joints"
• Chronic inflammatory disorder affecting all joints"
• Systemic inflammatory disorder due to an autoimmune

reaction"

• Inflammatory disorder causing damage to many organs -

CORRECT ANSWER -c. Systemic inflammatory disorder due to an autoimmune reaction"

Of the following, who is most at risk for Gout?

• Men aged 40-50 years 2 / 4

• | P a g e

• Premenopausal women
• Male adolescents
• Female children - CORRECT ANSWER -A. Men aged 40-50

years

Which of the following may precipitate an attack of gout?

• A sudden increase in serum uric acid levels
• Severe hypercalcemia
• Mild trauma to the toes - CORRECT ANSWER -a. A sudden

increase in serum uric acid levels

Which of the following would identify an open or compound fracture?

• The skin and soft tissue are exposed at the fracture site.
• A bone is crushed into many small pieces.
• The bone appears bent with a partial fracture line.
• One end of a bone is forced into an adjacent bone. -

CORRECT ANSWER -a. The skin and soft tissue are exposed at the fracture site.

• / 4

• | P a g e

The type of compound fracture in which there are multiple

fracture lines and bone fragments is referred to as a/an:

• compression fracture.
• greenstick fracture.
• simple fracture.
• comminuted fracture. - CORRECT ANSWER -d.

comminuted fracture.

Vertebral fractures are classified as:

• simple, compression, wedge, dislocation.
• compound, open, closed, shattered.
• complex, torsion, open, multiple.
• pressure, complex, simple, variable. - CORRECT ANSWER -
• simple, compression, wedge, dislocation.

What is the most common cause of type 1 diabetes mellitus?

• Increased glucose production in the liver
• Destruction of pancreatic cells by an autoimmune reaction
• / 4