GCU NUR 634 Midterm EXAM QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
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1. You have a patient who comes in that is super talk- Redirect and summarize
ative. At the end of it all, what tools do you have to
find out what the patient actually came in for?
2. Blood in the eye. What are some questions you'd Recent trauma, double vision,
like to ask? OPQRST, nausea (Dx: sub-
conjunctival hemorrhage from
retching)
3. What is a normal finding of visual changes as we Presbyopia
age?
4. What is the order of exam for a new patient? a. Introduction
b. Chief complaint
c. HPI
d. Dx/plan
e. Summarize
5. If I had a person ask me as I was palpating their B Cell proliferation, which
lymph nodes, why their lymph nodes get large, makes more cells, hence en-
what would your answer be? largement
6. Which lymph nodes sit just behind the sternocleido- Posterior cervical chain
mastoid?
7. A patient comes in with really vague overall muscle Depression
complaints, fatigue with no accident or mechanism
of injury, what is something that is really important
to screen for?
8. Cranial Nerve III
, GCU NUR 634 Midterm EXAM QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
|2026/2027| Exam Questions & Answers Test || ELABORATED &DETAILED
ANSWERS!!
If a patient has double vision with one eye covered?
Which cranial nerve are you concerned about?
9. A patient that comes in with elbow pain that is a. Medial epicondylitis
worse on the right and pain when she extends her (Golfer's elbow)
wrist, what would you suspect? b. Tennis elbow presents with
pain and tenderness experi-
enced on the outside of the el-
bow, while golfer's elbow can
be felt on the inside of your
elbow and down the arm.
10. Pt has a lump that requires an I&D and it has a A sebaceous cyst.
very "cheesy" substance that comes out. You will
document that you just removed what?
11. If a patient has a cup to disc ratio of 1:2, then what Flatter disc, so less likely to be
is happening? a glaucoma suspect
12. What is your #1 DDx if I say I have chest pain that is Angina
sharp, right over my sternum
13. What is the main cause of Angina? Atherosclerosis
14. If you have a patient with sudden, non-painful loss Retinal detachment
of vision, what would you suspect?
15. If you have a patient with painful loss of vision in optic Neuritis
one eye, what would you suspect
16. Scaphoid fracture
|2026/2027| Exam Questions & Answers Test || ELABORATED &DETAILED
ANSWERS!!
1. You have a patient who comes in that is super talk- Redirect and summarize
ative. At the end of it all, what tools do you have to
find out what the patient actually came in for?
2. Blood in the eye. What are some questions you'd Recent trauma, double vision,
like to ask? OPQRST, nausea (Dx: sub-
conjunctival hemorrhage from
retching)
3. What is a normal finding of visual changes as we Presbyopia
age?
4. What is the order of exam for a new patient? a. Introduction
b. Chief complaint
c. HPI
d. Dx/plan
e. Summarize
5. If I had a person ask me as I was palpating their B Cell proliferation, which
lymph nodes, why their lymph nodes get large, makes more cells, hence en-
what would your answer be? largement
6. Which lymph nodes sit just behind the sternocleido- Posterior cervical chain
mastoid?
7. A patient comes in with really vague overall muscle Depression
complaints, fatigue with no accident or mechanism
of injury, what is something that is really important
to screen for?
8. Cranial Nerve III
, GCU NUR 634 Midterm EXAM QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
|2026/2027| Exam Questions & Answers Test || ELABORATED &DETAILED
ANSWERS!!
If a patient has double vision with one eye covered?
Which cranial nerve are you concerned about?
9. A patient that comes in with elbow pain that is a. Medial epicondylitis
worse on the right and pain when she extends her (Golfer's elbow)
wrist, what would you suspect? b. Tennis elbow presents with
pain and tenderness experi-
enced on the outside of the el-
bow, while golfer's elbow can
be felt on the inside of your
elbow and down the arm.
10. Pt has a lump that requires an I&D and it has a A sebaceous cyst.
very "cheesy" substance that comes out. You will
document that you just removed what?
11. If a patient has a cup to disc ratio of 1:2, then what Flatter disc, so less likely to be
is happening? a glaucoma suspect
12. What is your #1 DDx if I say I have chest pain that is Angina
sharp, right over my sternum
13. What is the main cause of Angina? Atherosclerosis
14. If you have a patient with sudden, non-painful loss Retinal detachment
of vision, what would you suspect?
15. If you have a patient with painful loss of vision in optic Neuritis
one eye, what would you suspect
16. Scaphoid fracture
