NUR 165 STUDY GUIDE 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔In patient who has a hemorrhage in the posterior cavity of the eye, the nurse knows
that blood is accumulating? - ✔✔between the lens and retina
✔✔Schwartz's sign is associated with? - ✔✔otosclerosis
✔✔What is age related hearing loss called? - ✔✔presbycusis
✔✔Patient forgets acquaintances name occasionally and sometimes has to search for
words? - ✔✔normal forgetfulness
✔✔-Patient with carpal tunnel syndrome and positive Tinel's sign causes? - ✔✔tingling
in ring and middle fingers from tapping median nerve
✔✔-Patient presents to ER with ankle swelling and severe pain, what is first nursing
intervention? - ✔✔either wrap and ice OR administer naproxen
✔✔-Nursing intervention with osteosarcoma, metastasis of bone cancer? -
✔✔administer pain meds
✔✔-Patient receives a bisphosphonate and has numbness or tingling around mouth,
what should nurse assess/report? - ✔✔labs for serum creatinine
✔✔-Patient has obvious deformity and can't move below elbow indicates? -
✔✔dislocation
✔✔-What requires further teaching for a patient having surgery? - ✔✔IV heparin 30
minutes prior to surgery
✔✔-What lab should be reported with zoldrenic acid? - ✔✔serum calcium 6.3 mg/dL
✔✔a positive drop arm test indicates? - ✔✔rotator cuff injury
✔✔teaching for women about osteoporosis? - ✔✔Common in women over 65 due to
decrease in estrogen
✔✔goal with MD? - ✔✔Promote independence and mobility
✔✔ligament? - ✔✔connect bone to bone
✔✔-to prevent infection with external fixator? - ✔✔schedule pin care every shift
, ✔✔notify hcP? - ✔✔After laminectomy and not voided for 10 hours
✔✔notify hcp with long cast? - ✔✔numbness in hand
✔✔-patient falls on extended hand and arm? - ✔✔distal radius fracture
✔✔-with MRI when do you notify HCP? - ✔✔permanent pacemaker
✔✔most at risk for VTE? - ✔✔75 yo man smokes with pelvic fracture
✔✔most at risk for FES? - ✔✔45 yo man with femur fracture
✔✔-patient with mandibular fracture discharge teaching? - ✔✔how and when to cut
wires
✔✔-patient with osteomyelitis discharge teaching? - ✔✔how to care for long term IV
✔✔-after knee surgery pt has +1 pulse and numbness? - ✔✔assess pulse in other leg
✔✔log roll a patient? - ✔✔neck injury
✔✔`-patient with facial fractures what is priority? - ✔✔cervical collar application
✔✔-humerus fracture 4 week checkup evidence of healing on xray? - ✔✔formation of
callus
✔✔-phantom limb pain therapy? - ✔✔mirror therapy
✔✔-teaching about feet and shoes? - ✔✔don't have a narrow toe box
✔✔-patient with vertebral fracture and when to call hcp? - ✔✔absent bowel sounds and
abdominal distention
✔✔-patient has hypercalcemia this causes? - ✔✔kidney stones
✔✔-complications with paget's disease? - ✔✔pathologic fracture
✔✔-what indicates osteoporosis? - ✔✔loss of height
✔✔with posterior hip surgery? - ✔✔Don't bend over to put on socks and shoes
✔✔-how to document cracking noise? - ✔✔crepitation
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔In patient who has a hemorrhage in the posterior cavity of the eye, the nurse knows
that blood is accumulating? - ✔✔between the lens and retina
✔✔Schwartz's sign is associated with? - ✔✔otosclerosis
✔✔What is age related hearing loss called? - ✔✔presbycusis
✔✔Patient forgets acquaintances name occasionally and sometimes has to search for
words? - ✔✔normal forgetfulness
✔✔-Patient with carpal tunnel syndrome and positive Tinel's sign causes? - ✔✔tingling
in ring and middle fingers from tapping median nerve
✔✔-Patient presents to ER with ankle swelling and severe pain, what is first nursing
intervention? - ✔✔either wrap and ice OR administer naproxen
✔✔-Nursing intervention with osteosarcoma, metastasis of bone cancer? -
✔✔administer pain meds
✔✔-Patient receives a bisphosphonate and has numbness or tingling around mouth,
what should nurse assess/report? - ✔✔labs for serum creatinine
✔✔-Patient has obvious deformity and can't move below elbow indicates? -
✔✔dislocation
✔✔-What requires further teaching for a patient having surgery? - ✔✔IV heparin 30
minutes prior to surgery
✔✔-What lab should be reported with zoldrenic acid? - ✔✔serum calcium 6.3 mg/dL
✔✔a positive drop arm test indicates? - ✔✔rotator cuff injury
✔✔teaching for women about osteoporosis? - ✔✔Common in women over 65 due to
decrease in estrogen
✔✔goal with MD? - ✔✔Promote independence and mobility
✔✔ligament? - ✔✔connect bone to bone
✔✔-to prevent infection with external fixator? - ✔✔schedule pin care every shift
, ✔✔notify hcP? - ✔✔After laminectomy and not voided for 10 hours
✔✔notify hcp with long cast? - ✔✔numbness in hand
✔✔-patient falls on extended hand and arm? - ✔✔distal radius fracture
✔✔-with MRI when do you notify HCP? - ✔✔permanent pacemaker
✔✔most at risk for VTE? - ✔✔75 yo man smokes with pelvic fracture
✔✔most at risk for FES? - ✔✔45 yo man with femur fracture
✔✔-patient with mandibular fracture discharge teaching? - ✔✔how and when to cut
wires
✔✔-patient with osteomyelitis discharge teaching? - ✔✔how to care for long term IV
✔✔-after knee surgery pt has +1 pulse and numbness? - ✔✔assess pulse in other leg
✔✔log roll a patient? - ✔✔neck injury
✔✔`-patient with facial fractures what is priority? - ✔✔cervical collar application
✔✔-humerus fracture 4 week checkup evidence of healing on xray? - ✔✔formation of
callus
✔✔-phantom limb pain therapy? - ✔✔mirror therapy
✔✔-teaching about feet and shoes? - ✔✔don't have a narrow toe box
✔✔-patient with vertebral fracture and when to call hcp? - ✔✔absent bowel sounds and
abdominal distention
✔✔-patient has hypercalcemia this causes? - ✔✔kidney stones
✔✔-complications with paget's disease? - ✔✔pathologic fracture
✔✔-what indicates osteoporosis? - ✔✔loss of height
✔✔with posterior hip surgery? - ✔✔Don't bend over to put on socks and shoes
✔✔-how to document cracking noise? - ✔✔crepitation
