REPRODUCTIVE

• Endometrial cycle and occurrence of ovulation
• Uterine Prolapse
• PCOS
• Testicular cancer & Risk factors
• Symptoms that require evaluation for Breast Cancer
• Signs of premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD)
• Dysfunctional uterine bleeding
• Pathophysiology of prostate cancer
• HPV and development of cervical cancer

ENDOCRINE

• Body’s process for adapting to high hormone levels:
• Cushing’s Syndrome:
  • Hypoparathyroidism CX:
  • Lab results point to primary hypothyroidism:
  • Primary hypothyroidism DX:
  • Pathophysiology of thyroid storm:
  • Signs of thyrotoxicosis:

NEURO

• Dermatomes
• Substance release at synapse
• Spondylolysis
• Location of motor and sensory areas of the brain

GENITOURINARY

• Diet and prevention of prostate cancer
• Impact of BPH on the Urinary System

GENETICS

• The role of DNA in genetics
• Transcription
• Effects of genetic mutations –
• Down syndrome/ Trisomy:
• Klinefelter syndrome:
• Duchenne muscular dystrophy
• Neurofibromatosis
• diseases that have multifactorial traits/multifactorial inheritance
• What is multifactorial inheritance?

MUSCULOSKELETAL

• Ions that initiate muscle contraction:
• Growth of long bones in children:
• Bones belonging to the appendicular skeleton:

IMMUNITY

• How vaccines are performed
• Populations are risk for getting systematic fungal infections and parasitic infections
• Systematic manifestations of infection
• Mechanism responsible for the increase in antimicrobial resistance worldwide  
• Functions of normal body flora
• Desensitization therapy
• Cells involved in the “left shift” in the WBC count differential
• Forms of Immunity
• Major histocompatibility class (MHC) I antigens (7th Edition, pg. 233-235, 244)
• Inflammatory chemicals blocked by anti-inflammatory drugs (7th Edition, pg. 207)
• Characteristics of acute phase reactant C-reactive protein (CRP) (7th Edition, pg. 214)

DERMATOLOGY

• Process by which a deep pressure ulcer heals:
• Phases of wound healing: Inflammatory-Proliferation-Maturation
• Complications of the development of contractures during wound healing:

ACID/BASE

• Causes of respiratory alkalosis:
• Molecules that act as buffers in the blood:

CARDIOVASCULAR

• Most common cardiac valve disease in women
• When myocardial ischemia may be reversible
• Symptoms of stable angina (angina pectoris)
• Orthostatic hypotension
• Isolated systolic HTN

• Sustained controlled HTN
• Relationship of insulin resistance on the development of primary hypertension; pg 1136.
• Defects in normal secretion of natriuretic hormones & impact on renal system; pg 1134
• Effects of increased sympathetic nervous system activity due to primary HTN; pg 1133
• Complications of unstable plaque in the coronary arteries:
• Forms of dyslipidemia associated with the development of the fatty streak in atherosclerosis:
• Events that initiate the process of atherosclerosis:
• S&S of ­Left Atrial &Pulmonary venous pressures in Left Sided HF
• Difference between L & R sided © failure
• Infective Endocarditis

PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE

• Peripheral vascular disease:
• Deep Vein Thrombosis pathophysiology
• Vichow’s traid:

HEMATOLOGY

• Physiological response to hypoxia in anemia
• Populations at highest risk for developing folate deficiency anemia
• Cause of Iron Deficiency Anemia
• Expected lab test results found in long standing Iron Deficiency Anemia
• Sickle Cell Anemia
• Aplastic Anemia
• Pathophysiology of Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia
• Secondary polycythemia Vera
  Anemia of chronic renal failure

FLUIDS & ELECTROLYTES

• Conditions that result in pure water deficit (hypertonic volume depleted)
• Osmoreceptors that stimulate thirst and the release of ADH
• Causes of hypernatremia
• Effects of increased aldosterone
• Dependent edema
• Definition of isotonic
• Principle of capillary oncotic pressure
• Types of fluid compartments in the body

PULMONARY

• most effective measure to prevent pulmonary embolus from developing in patients
• when the practitioner will note tactile fremitus
• cause of acute airway obstruction in the patient with chronic bronchitis

TYPES OF PNEUMOTHORAX

• Results of the loss of alph-1- antitrypsin in emphysema
• The result of loss of surfactant in ARDS
• Characteristics of Cheyne-Stokes respirations

SHOCK

• Causes of hypovolemic shock (7th Edition, pg. 1672-3)
• How the body maintains glucose levels during shock (7th Edition, pg. 1670)

NR 507 Week Five Quiz Study Guide

1. What controls the direct stimulation of the insulin-secreting cells?
2. Types of protein hormones

--Which of the following is an example of the protein hormone?

3. Assessing patients for elevated thyroxine production

--A patient who has elevated thyroxine production should be assessed for which accompanying condition?

4. Direct effect of insulin binding to receptors

--What type of effect occurs when insulin binds to its receptors on muscle cells, resulting in an increase in glucose uptake by those muscle cells?

5. Lipid-soluble hormone receptors crossing plasma membrane

--How do lipid-soluble hormone receptors cross the plasma membrane?

6. Effects of the removal of the posterior pituitary

--How do the releasing hormones that are made in the hypothalamus travel to the anterior pituitary?

--If a patient's posterior pituitary is removed, which hormone would the nurse expect to decrease?

7. Insulin regulation

--Insulin is primarily regulated by

8. Hormone-secreting tumor of the pancreas—what would increase?

--A patient is diagnosed with a hormone-secreting tumor of the pancreas alpha cells. Which of the following would the nurse expect to be most likely increased in this patient?

9. The effect of insulin on electrolytes

--A nurse recalls insulin has an effect on which of the following groups of electrolytes?

10. Hormonal regulation involved in child birth and stopping uterine bleeding?

--A 39-year-old female is recovering from the birth of her third child. Which hormone would help prevent uterine bleeding?

• Types of immunity-e.g. innate, active, etc
• Alveolar ventilation/perfusion
• Dermatologic conditions e.g. pityriasis rosea
• Croup
• Types of anemia

• Macrocytic-normochromic anemias:
• Microcytic-hypochromic anemias:
• Normocytic-normochromic Anemias:
• Mnemonic for different types of anemia-

• The inflammatory process upon injury
• GI symptoms resulting in heart burn
• Pulmonary terminology such as dyspnea, orthopnea, etc
• Complications of gastric resection surgery
• Dermatology terminology-macules, nevi, etc
• Chicken pox
• Maternal immune system
• Candidiasis exacerbation
• Carbuncles
• Terms such as hypochromic, macrocytic, microcytic, etc
• Antibodies, IgG, IgA, etc
• Skin cancer
• Parts of the heart in terms of function, such as pericardium
• Congenital heart defects
• Urinary tract obstruction,
• GI symptoms of conditions such as pyloric stenosis, hiatal hernia, ulcerative colitis
• Skin cancer lesions
• Gastroesophageal reflux disease
• Hypersensitivity reaction
• Congenital intrinsic factor deficiency
• Acid base imbalance
• Acute epiglottitis
• Types of gastric ulcers-signs and symptoms, characteristics
• Lupus
• General adaptation syndrome
• Ventilation/perfusion ratio
• Bile salt deficiencies
• Clonal selection
• Obstructive sleep apnea
• Large bowel obstruction
• Vaginal candidiasis
• Folate deficiency
• Pancreatic insufficiency
• Types of fractures
• Genetic disorders such as Down Syndrome,  Turner Syndrome, etc
• Vitamin B-12 therapy
• Glaucoma
• Cervical immunoglobulin
• Concept of pain  **See pgs 485-495
• Autosomal dominant diseases  (ADD) pg 152-154
• Congenital murmurs
• Lactose intolerance
• Angiotensin-renin system
• AIDS
• Carcinoma
• Hormonal regulation of calcium
• Neural tube defect
• Types of hormones-Types of hormones by structure
• Glycoprotein
• Kidney stones
• Type 2 diabetes
• Pituitary hormone secretion
• Signs of breast cancer-
• Alzheimer’s disease-
• Guillain-Barre Syndrome
• Sympathetic/parasympathetic nervous system *See pg 471-476
• ACTH
• Bartholin glands (pg 772)
• Gonococcal disease (pg 920-922)
• Glomerulonephritis-
• Small patent ductus arteriosus (PDA)-
• Risk factors for hypertension- (HTN= >120/>80)
• Loss of language and/or comprehension-such as terms-aphasia, etc. –(Data Processing Deficits)
• Chronic inflammatory joint disease
• Male and female sex hormone production   *See pgs 789-791 and 795-6 (male) and 776-78 (female)
• Endogenous antigen-
• Genital warts-
• Pancreatic enzymes-
• Process of muscle contraction-
• Cervical dysplasia-
• Consanguinity  
• Nephrotic syndrome