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NR 509 midterm Questions and Correct
Answers
Cause of saddle numbness and urinary retention
Ans✅✅: Cauda equina syndrome
Presentation of retinal detachment
Ans✅✅: If sudden visual loss is unilateral and painless,
Obtunded
Ans✅✅: 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
Ans✅✅: CN6: Abducens
Adult Illnesses
Ans✅✅: 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
Pretest - Stuvia US
, 2
Ans✅✅: 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
Ans✅✅: 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
Ans✅✅: Itching, watery eyes, sneezing, ear congestion, postnasal
drainage
Presentation of optic neuritis
Ans✅✅: Enlarged blind spot, vision loss in 1 eye, loss of color
vision, hole in center of vision, trouble seeing to the side, eye pain
pityriasis rosea
Ans✅✅: Multiple round to oval scaling violaceous plaques on abdomen
and back
Acromion
Ans✅✅: tip of shoulder
What to do for + finding on physical exam, but - workup
Ans✅✅: continue using test, but less lab and diagnostics
Cause of falsely high BP
Pretest - Stuvia US
NR 509 midterm Questions and Correct
Answers
Cause of saddle numbness and urinary retention
Ans✅✅: Cauda equina syndrome
Presentation of retinal detachment
Ans✅✅: If sudden visual loss is unilateral and painless,
Obtunded
Ans✅✅: 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
Ans✅✅: CN6: Abducens
Adult Illnesses
Ans✅✅: 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
Pretest - Stuvia US
, 2
Ans✅✅: 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
Ans✅✅: 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
Ans✅✅: Itching, watery eyes, sneezing, ear congestion, postnasal
drainage
Presentation of optic neuritis
Ans✅✅: Enlarged blind spot, vision loss in 1 eye, loss of color
vision, hole in center of vision, trouble seeing to the side, eye pain
pityriasis rosea
Ans✅✅: Multiple round to oval scaling violaceous plaques on abdomen
and back
Acromion
Ans✅✅: tip of shoulder
What to do for + finding on physical exam, but - workup
Ans✅✅: continue using test, but less lab and diagnostics
Cause of falsely high BP
Pretest - Stuvia US
