Exam 4: Monographs

A nurse working in a primary care provider's office notes a client's follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH)levels are elevated.Which of the following reported symptoms would most likely correlate with this finding?

A nurse observing an ultrasound of the pancreas notes that the image is not clear.The nurse understands that which of the following factors could be interfering with the image? Select all that apply.

A nurse is providing post-test teaching to a patient who has just undergone uterine fibroid embolization.The nurse should tell the patient that it is normal to experience which of the following symptoms for several days following this procedure? Select all that apply.

A newborn's laboratory test results indicate that the child has sickle cell disease.This child will be subject to occasional crises characterized by which of the following symptoms? Select all that apply.

Following refraction testing, a patient's refraction is found to be unequal in different curvatures of the eyeball.This finding indicates which of the following?

A nurse is providing teaching to a patient who will be undergoing semen analysis.Which of the following should the nurse mention as factors that will decrease sperm count, thus impairing the accuracy of the test? Select all that apply.

A nurse working in an obstetrician's office is counseling a woman about prenatal testing, which includes toxoplasma.Which of the following instructions should the nurse provide?

Laboratory results for a patient with idiopathic thrombocytopenia include platelet antibodies that are positive.The nurse determines that teaching has been effective by which of the following patient statements?

A patient's laboratory test results indicate an increased renin level.The nurse is aware that this finding is consistent with which of the following conditions? Select all that apply.

While reviewing charts, which of the following would require an intervention by the nurse?

The nurse is caring for a patient who was admitted with chest pain to rule out a myocardial infarction.After receiving nitroglycerin and morphine, the patient is resting in bed comfortably with oxygen at 2 L.The initial troponin I level is 0.40 ng/mL.Which of the following interpretations of this lab value is best?

A nurse is preparing a patient for liver and biliary system ultrasound (US).Based on a knowledge of anatomy, the nurse should prepare which quadrant of the abdomen for this procedure?

The nurse draws blood for a patient with coagulation studies ordered, including protein C.Which of the following actions could result in erroneous results?

While reviewing medications taken by a patient scheduled to have a liver biopsy, the nurse would be most concerned if the patient reported taking which of the following?

A cancer patient has developed anemia as a result of chemotherapy and is receiving treatment for the anemia.The health-care provider would like to evaluate the effectiveness of this common treatment for anemia.Which test would be most appropriate for this purpose?

While assessing a patient before an ultrasound of the spleen, the nurse learns that the patient recently underwent a barium enema procedure.The nurse knows that there should be at least how many hours between administration of barium and this test?

A nurse is assisting with spondee speech recognition threshold testing.What percentage of words must the patient correctly repeat at an appropriate intensity to qualify as having normal speech recognition?

A nurse is positioning a patient for thyroid and parathyroid ultrasound imaging.Which position should the patient be placed in?

A patient's laboratory test results indicate an increased reticulocyte count.On the basis of this finding, the nurse should suspect which of the following conditions? Select all that apply.

A health-care provider has decided to perform transesophageal echocardiography (TEE)on a patient to determine the severity of a valvular abnormality.Which of the following conditions in the patient would most likely cause the provider to choose this method over conventional echocardiography?