COURSE   NURS 6501 Advanced Pathophysiology NURS 6501 Module 6 Week 9 Knowledge Check; Psychological Disorders Question: A 21-year-old male college student was brought to Student Health Services by his girlfriend who was concerned about changes in her boyfriend’s behaviors. The girlfriend says that recently he began hearing voices and believes everyone is out to get him. The student says he is unable to finish school because the voices told him he was not smart enough. The girlf...

COURSE   NURS 6501 Advanced Pathophysiology NURS 6501 Module 5 Week 8 Assignment; Case Study Analysis; Gout Arthritis An understanding of the neurological and musculoskeletal systems is a critically important component of disease and disorder diagnosis and treatment. This importance is magnified by the impact that that these two systems can have on each other. A variety of factors and circumstances affecting the emergence and severity of issues in one system can also have a role in ...

COURSE   NURS 6501 Advanced Pathophysiology NURS 6501 Module 5 Week 7 Knowledge Check; Neurological and Musculoskeletal Disorders Question: A 52-year-old obese Caucasian male presents to the clinic with a 2-day history of fever, chills, and right great toe pain that has gotten worse. Patient states this is the first time that this has happened, and nothing has made it better and walking on his right foot makes it worse. He has tried acetaminophen, but it did not help. He took se...

COURSE   NURS 6501 Advanced Pathophysiology Question: When completing this quiz, did you comply with Walden University’s Code of Conduct including the expectations for academic integrity? Question: How should the nurse prepare a patient who is to receive a Schilling test for pernicious anemia? Question: A staff member wants to know where the greatest proportion of iron is located. How should the nurse respond? The greatest proportion of total body iron is located in the: ...

COURSE   NURS 6501 Advanced Pathophysiology NURS 6501 Module 4 Week 6 Knowledge Check; Endocrine Disorders Question: A 67-year-old Caucasian woman was brought to the clinic by her son who stated that his mother had become slightly confused over the past several days. She had been stumbling at home and had fallen once but was able to ambulate with some difficulty. She had no other obvious problems and had been eating and drinking. The son became concerned when she forgot her son’...

COURSE   NURS 6501 Advanced Pathophysiology Question: In autoimmune-mediated diabetes pancreatic beta cells are destroyed by autoreactive   Question: Dysfunction of the thyroid gland can cause: Question: What effect does cortisol have on the body? Question: In order for a hormone to act on a cell, the cell must have for that hormone Question: Nonpitting boggy edema caused by infiltration of mucopolysaccharides and proteins between connective tissue in the dermis descr...

COURSE   NURS 6501 Advanced Pathophysiology NURS 6501 Module 3 Week 5 Knowledge Check; Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Disorders Question: A 45-year-old male comes to the clinic with a chief complaint of epigastric abdominal pain that has persisted for 2 weeks. He describes the pain as burning, non-radiating and is worse after meals. He denies nausea, vomiting, weight loss or obvious bleeding. He admits to bloating and frequent belching.   PMH-+ for osteoarthritis, seasona...

COURSE   NURS 6501 Advanced Pathophysiology Question: Cells that remove bacteria and foreign particles from blood in the hepatic sinusoids are called? Question: What hormone delay gastric emptying? Question: Bilateral renal calculi can cause what type of acute kidney injury? Question: A man with a cauda equina involvement in multiple sclerosis became incontinent when his caregiver was late and was not available to assist with the morning catheterization is experiencing w...

COURSE   NURS 6501 Advanced Pathophysiology NURS 6501 Module 2 Week 4 Assignment; Case Study Analysis Case Study A 45-year-old woman complains of 3-day duration of shortness of breath, cough with thick green sputum production, and fevers. Patient has a history of COPD with chronic cough but states the cough has gotten much worse and is interfering with her sleep. Sputum is thicker and harder for her to expectorate. CXR reveals flattened diaphragm and increased AP diameter. Ausculta...

COURSE   NURS 6501 Advanced Pathophysiology NURS 6501 Module 2 Week 3 Knowledge Check; Cardiovascular and Respiratory Disorders Question: CC: “I have been having terrible chest and arm pain for the past 2 hours and I think I am having a heart attack.” Question: CC: “I have been having terrible chest and arm pain for the past 2 hours and I think I am having a heart attack.” Question: A 45-year-old woman with a history of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) presents to the Em...