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The emergency room nurse is caring for a client with a severe decrease in adrenocorticotropin hormone (ACTH). What is the nurse's priority?

Administration of hydrocortisone sodium succinate

The nurse is caring for a client with impairment of the adrenal gland. The nurse notes abnormal sodium and potassium levels. Which hormone is the most likely to be impaired?

Aldosterone

The nurse is caring for a client with acquired hypothyroidism. Which etiology of the client's condition does the nurse suspect? Select all that apply.

Deficient thyroid hormone synthesis Impaired thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) secretion Impaired thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) secretion Destruction of the thyroid gland

The nurse is caring for a client with excess antidiuretic hormone (ADH) production. Which assessment findings does the nurse expect to find? Select all that apply.

Dependent edema Oliguria Hyponatremia

The nurse is caring for a client with adrenal hyperplasia. What is the nurse's understanding of the etiology of the condition?

Excessive hormonal stimulation

A nurse on a medical unit is providing care for a 37-year-old female client who has a diagnosis of Graves disease. Which assessments should the nurse prioritize?

Eye health and visual acuity

A nurse has just completed client education on how hormones are normally regulated by feedback mechanisms. The client asks, "What, if anything, can alter the regulation of anterior pituitary hormones?" Which response by the nurse would be considered an appropriate reply? Select all that apply.

Stress Temperature Nutritional status

A client with a history of brain tumors that resulted in partial removal of the pituitary gland years ago expresses concern to the health care provider about whether she will be able to breast-feed her infant. Which physiologic function of the pituitary gland facilitates breast milk production?

Prolactin

A client with many nonspecific complaints has been ordered a positron emission tomography (PET) scanning for evaluation of:

Tumors located on the endocrine glands

In major athletic competition, athletes are required to submit to liquid chromatography testing looking for:

Use of performance-enhancing agents to increase the chances of winning

which pediatric assignment finding would the nurse recognize as an example of precocious puberty?

a 7 year old female with early menarche

Which patho physiologic phenomenon May result in a diagnosis of cushings disease?s

excess ACTH production by a pituitary tumor

The nurse administers a glucocorticoid medication to a client with pneumonia. Which of these does the nurse teach the client is the purpose of the medication?

decrease airway inflammation

The nurses performing an assessment for a client who has hyper thyroidism that is untreated when obtaining vital signs what would be expected findings?

heart rate 110 and bounding

which statement best explains the function of hormone receptors?

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

An infant's mother who has mixededma during pregnancy has failed to meet the standards for growth in is developmently delayed. Which for hormonal imbalance is this child exhibiting

hypothyroidism

when the nurse is performing a health history for a client who is being admitted for hyperthyroidism what symptom does the client report that the nurse would find associated with this disorder?

increase in appetite

Structure controls the function of the greatest number of target glands in cells?

pituitary gland

Hey client undergoing evaluation of hormone levels ask what regulates the hormone levels which response by the nurse would be considered most accurate

the hypothalamic pituitary target cell system

the nurse is providing discharge instructions for a client with graves disease who has ophthalmopathy. what should the nurse be sure to include in the instructions to decrease exacerbations of this clinical manifestation

the pt should be strongly urged not to smoke