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abern · **on:** Jul 11, 2018

Nursing students have learned that removal of specific organs may place the patient at risk for impaired immune function.

The students are taught that it is important, while taking the patient's health history, to ask the patient if he or she had surgical removal of what organ that may lead to impairment of the immune system?
A) Lung
B) Spleen
C) Colon
D) Pancreas

Question 2

An 82-year-old resident of a long-term care facility has had a scheduled appointment with his primary care provider and had blood work drawn thereafter. The results of the resident's blood work are suggestive of anemia.

How should the nurse best interpret this laboratory finding?
A) Mild to moderate anemia is considered a normal, age-related change.
B) The resident's anemia is likely the result of psychological stressors.
C) The specific etiology of the resident's anemia should be investigated.
D) The resident would benefit from a high-iron diet and folic acid supplements.