NR 509 Final Exam Questions With Accurate
Answers 2025\2026 A+ Grade
Cause of saddle numbness and urinary retention
- accurate answers-Cauda equina syndrome
Presentation of retinal detachment
- accurate answers-If sudden visual loss is unilateral and painless,
Obtunded
- accurate answers-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
- accurate answers-CN6: Abducens
Adult Illnesses
- accurate answers-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
- accurate answers-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
- accurate answers-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
- accurate answers-Itching, watery eyes, sneezing, ear congestion, postnasal
drainage
Presentation of optic neuritis
- accurate answers-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
- accurate answers-Multiple round to oval scaling violaceous plaques on
abdomen and back
Acromion
- accurate answers-tip of shoulder
What to do for + finding on physical exam, but - workup
- accurate answers-continue using test, but less lab and diagnostics
Cause of falsely high BP
- accurate answers--too small of a BP cuff
- if the brachial artery is below heart level
- loose cuff
- bladder that balloons outside the cuff
Check for nystagmus
- accurate answers--involuntary jerking movement of the eyes with quick and
slow components.
- It is named for the direction of the quick component
- seen in cerebellar disease and vestibular disorders and in internuclear
ophthalmoplegia
Jaundice
- accurate answers-yellow sclera
Answers 2025\2026 A+ Grade
Cause of saddle numbness and urinary retention
- accurate answers-Cauda equina syndrome
Presentation of retinal detachment
- accurate answers-If sudden visual loss is unilateral and painless,
Obtunded
- accurate answers-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
- accurate answers-CN6: Abducens
Adult Illnesses
- accurate answers-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
- accurate answers-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
- accurate answers-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
- accurate answers-Itching, watery eyes, sneezing, ear congestion, postnasal
drainage
Presentation of optic neuritis
- accurate answers-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
- accurate answers-Multiple round to oval scaling violaceous plaques on
abdomen and back
Acromion
- accurate answers-tip of shoulder
What to do for + finding on physical exam, but - workup
- accurate answers-continue using test, but less lab and diagnostics
Cause of falsely high BP
- accurate answers--too small of a BP cuff
- if the brachial artery is below heart level
- loose cuff
- bladder that balloons outside the cuff
Check for nystagmus
- accurate answers--involuntary jerking movement of the eyes with quick and
slow components.
- It is named for the direction of the quick component
- seen in cerebellar disease and vestibular disorders and in internuclear
ophthalmoplegia
Jaundice
- accurate answers-yellow sclera
