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NURS 6501 Week 1 Quiz Walden University
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• Question 1 When completing this quiz, did you comply with Walden University’s Code of Conduct including the expectations for academic integrity?
Selected Answer: Yes
A patient has a heart attack that leads to progressive cell injury that causes cell death with severe cell swelling and breakdown of organelles. What term would the nurse use to define this process?
Selected Answer: d.
Necrosis
The nurse is teaching staff about the most common cause of Down syndrome. What is the nurse describing?
Selected Answer: c.
Maternal nondisjunction
A 15-year-old female is diagnosed with Prader-Willi syndrome. This condition is an example
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Selected Answer: a.
Gene imprinting
A 55-year-old male with a 30-year history of smoking is examined for respiratory disturbance. Examination of his airway (bronchial) reveals that stratified squamous epithelial cells have replaced the normal columnar ciliated cells. This type of cellular adaptation is
called:
Selected Answer: c.
Metaplasia
A group of prison inmates developed tuberculosis following exposure to an infected inmate.On examination, tissues were soft and granular (like clumped cheese). Which of the following is the most likely cause?
Selected Answer: c.
Caseous necrosis
What causes the rapid change in the resting membrane potential that initiates an action potential?
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Answer:
b.
Sodium gates open, and sodium rushes into the cell, changing the membrane potential from negative to positive.
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