Exam 18: Mechanisms of Hormonal Regulation

If a patient has a problem with the adrenal medulla, which of the following hormones should the nurse monitor?

Insulin is primarily regulated by:

How do the releasing hormones that are made in the hypothalamus travel to the anterior pituitary?

Which of the following lab results would indicate a slowdown in the rate of parathyroid hormone secretion?

Which assessment finding would the nurse expect to be increased in a patient with deficient ADH production?

Which of the following is a water-soluble amine?

If the patient has a problem with the pineal gland, which substance would the nurse monitor?

How do lipid-soluble hormone receptors cross the plasma membrane?

What can trigger ACTH to be released?

A patient is diagnosed with a hormone-secreting tumor of the pancreas alpha cells.Which of the following would the nurse expect to be most likely increased in this patient?

When a staff member asks the nurse which gland secretes ADH and oxytocin, how should the nurse respond?

What type of effect occurs when insulin binds to its receptors on muscle cells, resulting in an increase in glucose uptake by those muscle cells?

What regulates aldosterone secretion?

A 70-year-old female has brittle bones secondary to osteoporosis.Her primary care provider prescribes calcitonin to:

A 40-year-old patient undergoes surgery for a PTH-secreting tumor in which the parathyroid is removed.Which physiological alteration would the nurse expect following surgery?

A nurse recalls insulin has an effect on which of the following groups of electrolytes?

Where is the main site of aldosterone synthesis?

Which is the most potent naturally occurring glucocorticoid?

ADH release from the posterior pituitary is stimulated by which process?

Which of the following is an example of the protein hormone?