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The WHNP notices her patient has severe pitting edema in her lower extremities. The patient has increased blood volume due to a pregnancy, and unfortunately the patient has also developed an elevated blood pressure. This has resulted in filtration of water and solutes into interstitial tissues mainly due to

The WHNP is particularly concerned about the patient who is 26-weeks pregnant due to high risk exposure to lead. Lead causes damage within the cell by interfering with the intracellular action of

The FNP works in an urgent care at a resort town at a high altitude. The FNP is concerned one of the patients has high altitude illness, which could result in 

The patient has an enzyme deficiency and dysfunction; the NP knows this would be related to a problem with which of the biochemicals of the body?

The PNP is caring for a child with Pompe Disease. Unfamiliar with the disease, the PNP “googles” the disease and notes it causes tissue damage and destruction from the accumulation excess glycogen not being removed from the cell. The PNP realizes what cellular organelle is involved, as this organelle is responsible for making enzymes and clearing excess substances/waste from the cellular cytoplasm?

Two of the most common second messengers for peptide hormones in cellular communication are? 

The AGNP is reviewing the following lipid profile of a patient: Triglycerides: 234 (HIGH) LDL: 233 (very HIGH) HDL: 43  VLDL: 39 (HIGH) The AGNP realizes the patient has far too much cholesterol and lipid carrying proteins, including low-density lipoproteins, in the blood. She suspects this patient has a genetic condition called familial hypercholesterolemia disease. Which type of cellular transport mechanism does the AGNP know is dysfunctional in this condition, since the LDL-cholesterol is NOT entering the cell as it should?

A mother presents to the PNP after a home birth, with a small infant with a malformed skull. Follow-up visits, show the infant is growing slowly and showing developmental delay with signs of substantial cognitive and intellectual deficits. The child also has facial abnormalities that become more striking as it develops. What might the PNP expect to find in the mother’s pregnancy history?

A homeless man with an extensive history of alcohol use disorder is fatigue and some confusion and combativeness when he arrives at the clinic. Friends report that he has not consumed alcohol in 2 days and has become progressively more uncontrollable. Likely causes for his behavior would include all of the following EXCEPT

The FNP is reviewing a liver biopsy report on one of their patients: Description: liver tissue replaced by neoplastic glands infiltrating parenchyma and sinusoidal spaces composed of solid sheets with lumen lined by large cells with vesicular nuclei Impression: liver with poorly differentiated metastatic adenocarcinoma (in other words, metastatic cancer) Which of the following should have stopped this disease from occurring in the patient?