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The number of hormone receptors on a cell may be altered for any of several reasons. The most appropriate response would be:

Antibodies may destroy or block the receptor proteins.

The anatomy instructor is presenting a lecture on hormone synthesis. The instructor determines that instruction was effective when students identify the site of prohormone to hormone conversion as the:

Golgi complex

The nurse is caring for a client who has been diagnosed with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and has been taking oral steroids for several years. The nurse is aware that the client is at risk for:

Suppression of the client's hypothalamic-pituitary-target cell system

The physician is assessing a client with a preliminary diagnosis of endocrine disorder. Further assessment findings identify abnormalities with emotion, pain, body temperature, and neural input. The physician determines the need to further assess the:

hypothalamus

The nurse is reviewing the rest results of a client who was given thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) to evaluate the function of the pituitary gland. The nurse would recognize pituitary dysfunction as:

Decreased TSH levels

The nurse is assessing the laboratory results of a client diagnosed with chronic adrenal insufficiency. The nurse would expect the results to identify:

Decreased cortisol levels.

Select the statement that best explains the function of hormone receptors.

Hormone receptors recognize a specific hormone and translate the signal into a cellular response.

Select the most appropriate statement that describes the function of hormones.

Hormones function as modulators of cellular and systematic responses.

An instructor is teaching the class about positive feedback mechanism. The best example would be:

Increased estradiol production causes increased gonadotropin (FSH) production.

A nursing instructor is teaching a group of students about the action of hormones. The instructor determined that teaching was effective when the students' recognize the local action of hormones as:

Paracrine

Select the most accurate statement regarding measurements of urinary hormone:

Provide a better measure of hormone levels during a designated period.

The physician suspects a client may be experiencing hypofunction of an endocrine organ. Select the most appropriate test to determine organ function.

Stimulation tests

A client who is referred to the endocrinologist's office for evaluation of his hormone levels ask what regulates the hormone levels. The best response would be that hormone levels in the body are primarily regulated by:

The hypothalamic-pituitary-target cell system

Select the category of hormones that include norepinephrine and epinephrine.

amines and amino acids

A client has developed a tumor of the posterior pituitary gland. The client is at risk for problems with secretions of:

antidiuretic hormone (ADH) and oxytocin

Select the hormone that requires protein as a transport carrier.

cortisol

Select the process that allows hormones to exert influence upon some cells and not others.

receptor binding

A client asks the nurse what causes the secretion of growth hormone (GH) and adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) to fluctuate. The best response by the nurse would be:

sleep/wake cycles

A client has developed a tumor of the anterior pituitary gland. The nurse is aware that the client is at risk for alterations of: Select all that apply.

• Growth and metabolism • Function of the thyroid gland • Glucocorticoid hormone levels • Function of the gonads

A nurse has just completed an explanation of how hormones are normally regulated by feedback mechanisms to a client. The client asks if anything can alter the regulation. The best response by the nurse would be: Select all that apply.

• Stress • Temperature • Nutritional status