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NURS 511 Questions and Answers Latest
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Causes of painless loss of vision ANS✔✔ Vitreous hemorrhage from diabetes
or trauma
Macular Degeneration
Retinal Detachment
Retinal Vein Occlusion
Central Retinal Artery Occlusion
Causes of painful loss of vision ANS✔✔ Usually caused in corneal chamber
or cornea
Including:
Corneal Ulcer
Uveitis
Traumatic Hyphema
Acute Angle Closure Glaucoma
Optic Neuritis from MS
What does false negative mean? ANS✔✔ a test result which incorrectly
indicates that a particular condition or attribute is absent.
Proper order of examination of abdomen ANS✔✔ Inspection
Auscultation
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Pepper
Percussion
Palpation
45 year old patient presents with a cough. Upon auscultation, you hear
rhonchi unilaterally. If you are following the normal order of lung
assessment, what would be the next step of your assessment in order to
best establish a differential diagnosis? ANS✔✔ Ask the patient to cough to
evaluate whether the rhonchi clears with cough.
Adequate assessment of abnormal finding of percussed dullness in a lung
field requires the combination of exam techniques. Why would egophany or
whispered pectoriloquoy be helpful techniques for establishing a differential
diagnosis? ANS✔✔ Consolidation will produce positive findings for each of
these tests.
58 y.o. patient with a history of hypertension and coronary artery disease
presents with symptoms suggestive of intermittent claudication (pain in legs
comes on rapidly during exercise, quickly relieved by rest). Which of the
following is most accurate? ANS✔✔ You suspect arterial insufficiency, so you
will palpate the dorsalis pedis and posterior tibial pulses which are likely to
be diminished.
You are concerned that a patient has an aortic regurgitation murmur. How
should the patient be positioned in order to best accentuate the murmur?
ANS✔✔ Upright, but leaning forward
The nurse practitioner is conducting an eye exam. A light is pointed at a
patient's pupil, causing it to contract. It is also noted that the other pupil
contracts as well, though it is not exposed to bright light. Which of the
following terms describes this latter phenomenon? ANS✔✔ Consensual
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