NUR 631 Midterm Study Guide

(NUR 631 Midterm Study Guide)

This study guide provides a content outline that can be used to prepare exam. 

Cellular biology and Alterations

• Compensatory hyperplasia after partial resections (mod 1) (51-53)
• Tumor progress from benign to malignant (364-366)

Genetics

• Recurrence of autosomal diseases (152-154, 155-156)
  • Autosomal dominant
  • Autosomal recessive
• Klinefelter’s syndrome (mod 1) (148, 156, 914)
  • Causes
  • Signs and Symptoms
  • Testing

Immunology

• Rickets disease (1599-1600)
• Epstein-Barr Virus (318t, 1078-1079, 1011)
• Human Herpes Virus (HHV) 8 (382, 383, 1645)
• Complement Cascade (197, 198f, 287f)
  • Activated by 3 pathways
  • C3 deficiency blocks all three pathways
• Passive-acquired immunity  (227)
• IgM and IgG and IgA and IgE (229-230, 247, 254-255)
• IgE-mediated hypersensitivity (263-265)
• SLE (Lupus) (mod 2) (277-278) 

Fluid and Electrolytes and Acid-base

• Treatment of Hyperkalemia (mod 3) 119
• Calcium and phosphate balance (119-120)
• Metabolic acidosis with partial resp compensation (127f-128f, 125-128, 127t) 

Endocrinology

• Obesity and Type 2 DM (177-178)
• Know Autoimmune disorders (262-263, 264t-265t, 277-281, 275-276)
• Hormones that cause hyperglycemia (717-767, 804-834)
• Antidiuretic Hormone (109, 696-699, 718-719)
• Diabetes Insipidus and associated labs (719-720)
• Hyperparathyroidism (731-733)
• Type 1 Diabetes (734-739, 740f) 

Neurology

• Fight or Flight syndrome
• Arachnoid Villi (466)
• Circle of Willis (467, 468f)
• Cranial nerves functions and abnormalities associated with them (447-448, 469, 471f, 472t)
  • Trigeminal Neuralgia
  • Bell’s Palsy
• Multiple Sclerosis (618-621)
• Myofascial pain syndrome (492-493, 1579t) 

Nephrology

• Prerenal injury (1360, 1385)
• IgG nephropathies (glomerulonephritis) (1352-1358) 

Oncology

• Punched out lesions on a chest x-ray (1030-1035)
• Multiple Myeloma (1030-1035)
• BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations (174, 831)
• Cancer treatment symptoms (392, 395)
• Human papillomavirus and cancer (382, 423-424)
• Hodgkin Lymphoma (1023-1027) 

Hematology

• Know the different types of anemias and the CBC component (986t)
• Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CLL) (1020, mod 4)
• Eosiniphil vs Neutrophils (209-210, 949 – 208-210, 212)
• Erythropoietin use (959, 960f, 993, 1334)
• Anemia after subtotal gastrectomy for gastritis
• Jaundice in hemolytic anemia (996-1001)
• Hemophilia A is what kind of inherited disorder (1071) 

Infection

• Wet gangrene (mod 1) 91