NR 509 Midterm Questions with Correct Answers

NR 509 Midterm Questions with Correct Answers 100% Verified Cause of saddle numbness and urinary retention - Correct Answers Cauda equina syndrome Presentation of retinal detachment - Correct Answers If sudden visual loss is unilateral and painless, Obtunded - Correct Answers patient opens the eyes and looks at you but responds slowly and is somewhat confused. Alertness and interest in the environment are decreased.

Cranial nerve for lateral gaze - Correct Answers CN6: Abducens

Adult Illnesses - Correct Answers Medical: Illnesses such as diabetes, hypertension, hepatitis, asthma, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); hospitalizations; number and gender of sexual partners; and risk-taking sexual practices

■ Surgical: Dates, indications, and types of operations

■ Obstetric/Gynecologic: Obstetric history, menstrual history, methods of contraception, and sexual function ■ Psychiatric: Illness and time frame, diagnoses, hospitalizations, and treatments Present Illness - Correct Answers chronologic description of the problems prompting the patient's visit, including the onset of the problem, the setting in which it developed, its manifestations, and any treatments to date.Each problem/symptom needs: (1) location; (2) quality; (3) quantity or severity; (4) timing, including onset, duration, and frequency; (5) the setting in which it occurs; (6) factors that have aggravated -meds, allergies, tobacco use, ETOH and drug use Absence of red reflex - Correct Answers an opacity of the lens (cataract) or, possibly, the vitreous (or even an artificial eye). Less commonly, a detached retina or, in children, a retinoblastoma may obscure this reflex.S/S of seasonal allergies - Correct Answers Itching, watery eyes, sneezing, ear congestion, postnasal drainage Presentation of optic neuritis - Correct Answers Enlarged blind spot, vision loss in 1 eye, loss of color vision, hole in center of vision, trouble seeing to the side, eye pain 1 / 2

pityriasis rosea - Correct Answers Multiple round to oval scaling violaceous plaques on abdomen and back Acromion - Correct Answers tip of shoulder What to do for + finding on physical exam, but - workup - Correct Answers continue using test, but less lab and diagnostics Cause of falsely high BP - Correct Answers -too small of a BP cuff

• if the brachial artery is below heart level
• loose cuff
• bladder that balloons outside the cuff

Check for nystagmus - Correct Answers -involuntary jerking movement of the eyes with quick and slow components.

• It is named for the direction of the quick component
• seen in cerebellar disease and vestibular disorders and in internuclear ophthalmoplegia

Jaundice - Correct Answers yellow sclera how do get a patient to open up when upset - Correct Answers effective reassurance is simply identifying and acknowledging the patient's feelings.-Partnering -Summarizing -Transitions

• Empowering the pt

s/s of degenerative pain - Correct Answers -Slowly progressive, with temporary exacerbations after periods of overuse -usually insidious

• flexion and deviation deformities
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