Nr509 midterm Exam Questions AND Correct Answers
2 frameworks that continue throughout whole clinical encounter -
✔✔relationship building
structuring the interview
3 dimensions of cultural humility - ✔✔1) Self-awareness
2) Respectful communication
3) Collaborative partnerships
4 sub categories of adult illnesses - ✔✔medical hx
surgical hx
psychiatric hx
OB/GYN
4 techniques of physical assessment - ✔✔1. Inspection
2. Palpation
3. Percussion
4. Auscultation
7 attributes of a symptom - ✔✔OLD CARTS
,a localized systolic or continuous bruit may be heard over thyroid
gland in - ✔✔graves or toxic multi nodular goiter
Actinic Cheilitis - ✔✔precancerous lesion on lower lip
loses normal redness and becomes scaly, thickened, and slightly
everted
Actinic Cheilitis common in - ✔✔fair skinned men who work outdoors
solar damage
active listening - ✔✔Closely listening to what the patient is
communicating, connecting on an emotional state to the patient.
use both verbal and nonverbal skills to encourage pt to expand on
their feelings/concerns
acute coronary syndrome diagnostically helpful symptoms - ✔✔chest
pain
dyspnea
orthopnea
,allen test - ✔✔Compression of both radial and ulnar arteries, release
ulnar artery to verify filling of palmar arch prior to any invasive radial
artery procedure
Angioedema of lips caused mainly by - ✔✔allergic and NSAID
reactions
angular cheilitis - ✔✔maceration of the skin at the corners of the
mouth followed by fissuring; caused by overclosure of the mouth,
nutritional deficiency, or no teeth
Ankle-Brachial Index (ABI) - ✔✔ratio of the ankle systolic pressure to
the brachial systolic pressure; an objective measurement of arterial
disease that provides quantification of the degree of stenosis
anterior superficial cervical lymph nodes - ✔✔superficial to the SCM
muscle
Anxious patients may have episodic dyspnea during - ✔✔both rest
and exercise and also hyperventilation, or rapid shallow breathing
apices of lungs - ✔✔uppermost portions of the lungs
, apthous ulcers - ✔✔"canker sores"; small, painful, round ulcers in the
oral mucosa of unknown cause
aspiration pneumonia is more common in the __________ lobes
because - ✔✔right middle and lower lobes
right main bronchus is more vertical
asthma s/s - ✔✔cough w/ or w/o mucoid sputum
episodic wheezing and dyspnea
asymmetric tonsils may signify - ✔✔lymphoma
and like many other things??lol
atelectasis patient presentation - ✔✔retraction of muscles(severe)
dullness on percussion
crackles
Positive egophony, bronchophony, whispered pectoriloquy
atherosclerosis - ✔✔chronic inflammatory disease initiated by injury
to vascular endothelial cells provoking plaque formation
2 frameworks that continue throughout whole clinical encounter -
✔✔relationship building
structuring the interview
3 dimensions of cultural humility - ✔✔1) Self-awareness
2) Respectful communication
3) Collaborative partnerships
4 sub categories of adult illnesses - ✔✔medical hx
surgical hx
psychiatric hx
OB/GYN
4 techniques of physical assessment - ✔✔1. Inspection
2. Palpation
3. Percussion
4. Auscultation
7 attributes of a symptom - ✔✔OLD CARTS
,a localized systolic or continuous bruit may be heard over thyroid
gland in - ✔✔graves or toxic multi nodular goiter
Actinic Cheilitis - ✔✔precancerous lesion on lower lip
loses normal redness and becomes scaly, thickened, and slightly
everted
Actinic Cheilitis common in - ✔✔fair skinned men who work outdoors
solar damage
active listening - ✔✔Closely listening to what the patient is
communicating, connecting on an emotional state to the patient.
use both verbal and nonverbal skills to encourage pt to expand on
their feelings/concerns
acute coronary syndrome diagnostically helpful symptoms - ✔✔chest
pain
dyspnea
orthopnea
,allen test - ✔✔Compression of both radial and ulnar arteries, release
ulnar artery to verify filling of palmar arch prior to any invasive radial
artery procedure
Angioedema of lips caused mainly by - ✔✔allergic and NSAID
reactions
angular cheilitis - ✔✔maceration of the skin at the corners of the
mouth followed by fissuring; caused by overclosure of the mouth,
nutritional deficiency, or no teeth
Ankle-Brachial Index (ABI) - ✔✔ratio of the ankle systolic pressure to
the brachial systolic pressure; an objective measurement of arterial
disease that provides quantification of the degree of stenosis
anterior superficial cervical lymph nodes - ✔✔superficial to the SCM
muscle
Anxious patients may have episodic dyspnea during - ✔✔both rest
and exercise and also hyperventilation, or rapid shallow breathing
apices of lungs - ✔✔uppermost portions of the lungs
, apthous ulcers - ✔✔"canker sores"; small, painful, round ulcers in the
oral mucosa of unknown cause
aspiration pneumonia is more common in the __________ lobes
because - ✔✔right middle and lower lobes
right main bronchus is more vertical
asthma s/s - ✔✔cough w/ or w/o mucoid sputum
episodic wheezing and dyspnea
asymmetric tonsils may signify - ✔✔lymphoma
and like many other things??lol
atelectasis patient presentation - ✔✔retraction of muscles(severe)
dullness on percussion
crackles
Positive egophony, bronchophony, whispered pectoriloquy
atherosclerosis - ✔✔chronic inflammatory disease initiated by injury
to vascular endothelial cells provoking plaque formation
