The nurse practitioner student understands that hormones act in different cellular locations in the body based on hormone type and cell function.  An hormone that acts on the same cell that produced the hormone is known as an 

Following a progressive onset of fatigue, aching, and joint stiffness over the last two years, a 69-year-old male has recently been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Which teaching point should his primary care provider include during the office visit in which this diagnosis is communicated to the client?

A 41-year-old woman has been diagnosed as having a loose body of cartilage in her left knee. What data would be most likely to lead clinicians to this diagnosis?

A 9 year-old boy has been brought to the emergency department by his father who is concerned by his son’s recent fever, stiff neck, pain, and nausea. Examination reveals a petechial rash. Which assessment question by the emergency room provider would help determine the most appropriate diagnosis?

A client with diabetes mellitus has just undergone a right, below-the-knee amputation following a gangrene infection. A few days after the amputation, the client complains that he still feels his right foot. Knowing the pathophysiologic principles behind this, the provider can:

The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali is representative of the art movement that grew out of Dada and was directly influenced by Sigmund Freud’s theories of the unconscious and the logic of dreams:

Identify the post-impressionist artist who remained faithful to the idea of painting modern life in works such as A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.

Rebelling against the Neoclassical “Age of Reason” this art movement urged the use of emotion, intuition, individual experience, and imagination. Artists glorified the landscape, picturesque ruins, the struggle for liberty and man’s relationship to nature.

This Mesoamerican culture that is often called the “mother culture” because it seemed to have institutionalized the features that mark later civilizations in the region.

This protest art movement began as a response to the horrors of WWI and seemed to be “anti-everything” yet it was creative, spontaneous, provocative and absurd: