The staff educator is talking to a group of new emergency ...

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The staff educator is talking to a group of new emergency department nurses about hypertensive crises. The nurse educator is aware that hypertensive urgency differs from hypertensive emergency in what way?
 
  A) The patient's blood pressure (BP) is always higher in a hypertensive emergency.
  B) Close hemodynamic monitoring is required during treatment of hypertensive emergencies.
  C) Hypertensive urgency is treated with rest and tranquilizers to lower BP.
  D) Hypertensive emergencies are associated with evidence of target organ damage.

Question 2

A patient has been admitted with pernicious anemia and has asked the nurse to tell him what type of disorder pernicious anemia is. The nurse tells him that it is an immune disorder that results from failures of the tolerance to one's self.
 
   Responding immunologically to one's own antigens is called a(n) a. immunodeficiency disorder.
  b. hypersensitivity disorder.
  c. desensitization disorder.
  d. autoimmune disorder.

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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

D
Autoimmune disorders are failures of the tolerance to self. Autoimmune disorders may be described as an immune attack on the self and result from the failure to distinguish self protein from foreign protein.