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Midterm Anatomy and Nursing Quiz

Test your knowledge with our comprehensive midterm anatomy and nursing quiz. Designed for students and healthcare professionals, this quiz will challenge your understanding of vital concepts and practices.

Whether you're preparing for an exam or just looking to refresh your knowledge, this quiz covers:

Anatomy of the human body
Nursing procedures and best practices
Essential human needs and Maslow's hierarchy

67 Questions17 MinutesCreated by StudyingNurse574

What factors stimulate bone growth?

Insulin-like growth factors I and II

Fibroblast growth factor

Platelet-derived growth factor

Weight bearing extercises

Which system transports nutrition, oxygen, water, and waste:

Skeletal system

Cardiovascular system

Integumentary system

Endocrine system

The nurse has an order for an indwelling catheter insertion on a new client. What is the primary reason for the nurse to use sterile technique?

To avoid introduction of microorganisms

To meet client's needs

Introduction to new medical equipment

Improved hygiene

The type of tissue composed of cells that contract in response to a message from the brain or spinal cord is:

Epithelial

Connective

Muscle

Nervous

Which event occurs in response to an increase in thoracic volume?

Respiratory system

Air moves into and through the respiratory passages

One bronchial tube leads to the left lung

When you inhale through your nose or mouth

The lung is covered by a thin, moist serous membrane called:

Parietal pleura

Double fold

Pulmonary ligament

Visceral pleura

The layer, located just below the skin that connects the skin to the surface muscles, is called:

Hypodermis

Epidermis

Dermis

Subcutaneous tissue

When being admitted to a hospital, the nurse may help the client feeling a loss of identity by:

Calling the client by his or her name

Calling the client by his or her number

Calling the client by his or her date of birth

Calling the client by his or her room number

When the nurse orients the patient to their room, she explains the use of the equipment, the call system, the bed, the telephone, and the TV. The rationale is that:

The patient will be allowed some control over the environment and it promotes safetyd

The patient will be more comfortable

The patient have less anxiety

The patient will be happy

The cues and inferences that the nurse uses to choose a nursing diagnosis label are:

Based on data obtained from the client assessment

Client assessment

Based on clients therapy given

Based on clients symptoms

A client's normal range of vital signs:

Based on their symptoms

All are the same

Are normal if they are healthy

May differ from the standard range

The nurse is preparing to auscultate the apical pulse. Where should the nurse place the stethoscope?

5th intercostal mid-clavicular, on the left side

3th intercostal mid-clavicular, on the right side

7th intercostal mid-clavicular, on the left side

4th intercostal mid-clavicular, on the right side

When using the tympanic thermometer for a child, the nurse will tug the ear pinna

Downward and back

Downward and front

Back and downward

Back and forward

Which of the following nursing process requires the nurse to establish interventions of care for the patient?

Planning

Assessment

Evaluation

Diagnosis

When giving an example of a fomite, the nurse describes a:

Contaminated stethoscope

Stethoscope

Clean stethoscope

Asepsis

When following standard precautions, what will the nurse do when disposing linens contaminated with feces?

PPE

Don gloves

Standard precautions

Hand hygiene

The nurse tells the patient the most important preventive technique for interrupting the infection process is:

Hand washing/hygiene

Removing jewelry

Gloves

PPE

The characteristics, roles, and responsibilities of the vocational nurse includes of all of the following except

Practice independently to meet client's needs

Practice with coworkers to meet clients needs

Practice professional

Practice under the scope

How did soldiers benefit from the concept of "sanitation" in the hospital ward applied by Florence Nightingale? Select all that apply

Improved hygiene

Accurate record keeping of the patients

Nutritional diet improvement

Introduction to new medical equipment

The nurse checks the oxygen saturation of a client with pneumonia, the nurse is assuring which essential human need according to Maslow?

Physiologic

Self-actualization

Esteem

Safety

A nursing students is administering a water and soap solution enema to a client. Which of the following steps should the nurse perform to purge air from the tubing?

Open the tube clamp and fill the tube with solution

Open the tube clamp and fill the tube with water

Open the tube clamp and fill the tube with medication

Open the tube clamp and fill the tube with soap

A nurse has inserted an indwelling catheter and is ready to document. Which of the following information is the nurse required to document? Select all that apply.

Procedure done

Patient response

Patient teaching done

Time and date of procedure

The nurse has an order for an indwelling catheter insertion on a new client. What is the primary reason for the nurse to use sterile technique?

To avoid introduction of microorganisms

To avoid more urine

To avoid pain

To avoid the catheter staying in longer

The structure of the Nephron responsible for the reabsorption of water and solutes during urine formation is the:

Proximal Convoluted Tubule

Distal Convoluted Tubule

Henle's loop

Collecting Tubule

Which of the following principles is correct during a wound irrigation? Select all that apply.

Clean from least contaminated to most contaminated

Cleanse the area around the skin with antiseptic swabs first

1 inch away from wound

Cleanse the area from front to back with antiseptic swabs first

Which of the following descriptions best defines the gate control theory?

The brain does not have capacity to acknowledge the pain while it is interpreting another stimuli

Pain impulses are sent to receptor sites in vital organs

Reduces pain

The brain sends the capacity to acknowledge the pain while it is interpreting another stimuli

Which of the following are the advantages of a client receiving proper pain management during their hospital stay? Select all that apply.

Faster recovery

Fewer readmission

Improved quality of life

Shorter hospital stay

Which of the following are objective signs of pain? Select all that apply.

Increased pulse rate

Increased blood pressure

Diaphoresis

Smiling

Which of the following lists gives the correct order for the parts through which light passes as it enters the eye?

Cornea, aqueous humor, pupil, lens, vitreous humor, retina

Cornea, aqueous humor, vitreous humor, lens

Cornea, vitreous humor, lens, aqueous humor

Lens, cornea, aqueous humor, vitreous humor

What stimulates maturation of the Lymphocytes into T cells coordinates immune system

Parathyroid gland

Thymus gland

Endocrine gland

Hypothalamus gland

What slows everything down and increases heart rate and release of glucose?

Epinephrine

Norepinephrine

Blood sugar

Adrenaline

When patient keeps pulling central venous catheter or IV line:

Device dysfunction

Requiring restrains

Complications

Infection

The functions of the proximal convoluted tubules are to:

Reabsorb glucose

Pesticides

Other nutrients back in the blood

Calcium

Pancreas: select all that apply

Secretes insulin and glucagon

Regulates blood sugar

Lies transversely across the upper abdomen

Produces digestive enzymes for fats carbs, proteins

What is the term for the exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen that takes place at the alveolar level?

Tachypnea

External respiration

Bradypnea

Internal respiration

Glucose is usually broken down to:

Store the genetic codes

Help regulate blood sugar

Provide energy (ATP) for the working cells

Release carbon dioxide

In addition to urinary drainage, why else might a urinary catheter be used? Select all that apply

Divert urine flow to facilitate healing after surgery to urinary tract

Dilate some portions of the urinary tract

Introduce medications

Asses urine in the drainage tubing

The nurse is providing instructions to the nursing assistant on the catheter care for a PT an appropriate instruction:

Clean from urinary meatus down the catheter

Clean from the urinary meatus up the catheter

Withdraw at least 5 mL of urine

Replace all contaminated supplies

The nurse is giving a back rub to a PT to relive pain, what pain theory is this?

Pain theory

Gate theory

Therapy theory

Reduce pain

What helps regulate metabolism of carbohydrates proteins, and fats; lowers blood glucose?

Androgens

Liver

Insulin

Gallbladder

What are the effects of the release of epinephrine and norepinephrine? Select all that apply

Immunity

Vasoconstriction

Release glucose reserves

Increased heart rate

When blood is pumped from the Left ventricle of the heart through all parts of the body and returns to the heart

Coronary sinus

Right atrium

Superior venae cavae

Inferior venae cavae

What happens when the diaphragm and the intercostal muscle relax?

Air moves into the lungs

Thoracic volume

Air moves out of the lungs

Thoracic volume decreases

The proximal convoluted tubules extend to become the:

Collecting duct

Descending limb (Loop of Henle)

Glomeruli

Peritubular capillaries

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