NR509 Midterm Exam Questions And Answers All Included

NR509 Midterm Exam Questions And Answers All Included Active listening - ANS -closely attending to what the patient is communicating -connecting to the patient's emotional state -verbal and nonverbal skills Empathic responses - ANS capacity to identify with the patient and feel the patient's pain as your own, then respond in a supportive manner Guided questioning - ANS Helps to continue the patient's story -moving from open ended to focused questions -using questions that elicit a graded response -asking a series of questions, ONE at a time -clarifying what the patient means -encouraging with continuers -using echoing also known as adaptive questioning Reassurance - ANS appropriate way to help the patient feel that problems have been fully understood and are being addressed Partnering - ANS When building rapport with patients, express your commitment to an ongoing relationship Transitions - ANS Inform your patient when you are changing directions during the interview. Empowering the patient - ANS -to ask questions -express their concerns -probe your recommendations in order to encourage them to adopt your advice, make lifestyle changes, or take medications as prescribed. Comprehensive exam used for? Includes? Focused exam used for? - ANS -new patients -health history -complete physical examination. -routine care, urgent care, specific problem Articular structures - ANS articular cartilage intra-articular ligaments juxta-articular bone joint capsule synovium synovial fluid Articular disease signs and symptoms - ANS crepitus deformity instability locking of the joints Limits active & passive ROM d/t stiffness/pain Swelling Tenderness of the joint Extra-articular structures - ANS bursae bone fascia muscle nerve overlying skin periarticular ligaments tendons Extra-articular disease involves - ANS point of focal tenderness in regions adjacent to articular structures -Limits active ROM RARELY causes swelling, instability, joint deformity Nonarticular conditions - ANS trauma/fracture, fibromyalgia, polymyalgia rheumatica, bursitis, tendinitis Intra-articular (acute, < 6 weeks): acute arthritis - ANS gout infectious arthritis pseudogout Reiter syndrome Intra-articular (chronic, > 6 weeks): Chronic inflammatory arthritis with 1-3 joints involved - ANS Indolent infection Psoriatic arthritis Reiter syndrome Periarticular JA Intra-articular (chronic, > 6 weeks): Chronic inflammatory arthritis with >3 joints involved: if not RA then - ANS Psoriatic arthritis Reiter syndrome (no symmetry) rheumatoid arthritis if not RA then à SLE, scleroderma, polymyositis what causes saddle numbness and urinary retention - ANS CES CES (cauda equina syndrome) most commonly results from