NR 509 Midterm Exam Test Questions and Answers
Active listening
Answer: -closely attending to what the patient is communicating
-connecting to the patient's emotional state
-verbal and nonverbal skills
Empathic responses
Answer: capacity to identify with the patient and feel the patient's pain as your own, then respond in a
supportive manner
Guided questioning
Answer: Helps to continue the patients 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
Answer: appropriate way to help the patient feel that problems have been fully understood and are
being addressed
Partnering
Answer: When building rapport with patients, express your commitment to an ongoing relationship
Transitions
Answer: Inform your patient when you are changing directions during the interview.
Empowering the patient
Answer: -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?
Answer: -new patients
-health history
-complete physical examination.
-routine care, urgent care, specific problem
Articular structures
Answer: articular cartilage
intra-articular ligaments
juxta-articular bone
joint capsule
synovium
synovial fluid
Articular disease signs and symptoms
Answer: crepitus
deformity
instability locking of the joints
Limits active & passive ROM d/t stiffness/pain
Swelling
Tenderness of the joint
Extra-articular structures
Answer: bursae
bone
fascia
muscle
nerve
overlying skin
periarticular ligaments
tendons
Extra-articular disease involves
Answer: point of focal tenderness in regions adjacent to articular structures
-Limits active ROM
RARELY causes swelling, instability, joint deformity
Nonarticular conditions
Answer: trauma/fracture, fibromyalgia, polymyalgia rheumatica, bursitis, tendinitis
Active listening
Answer: -closely attending to what the patient is communicating
-connecting to the patient's emotional state
-verbal and nonverbal skills
Empathic responses
Answer: capacity to identify with the patient and feel the patient's pain as your own, then respond in a
supportive manner
Guided questioning
Answer: Helps to continue the patients 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
Answer: appropriate way to help the patient feel that problems have been fully understood and are
being addressed
Partnering
Answer: When building rapport with patients, express your commitment to an ongoing relationship
Transitions
Answer: Inform your patient when you are changing directions during the interview.
Empowering the patient
Answer: -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?
Answer: -new patients
-health history
-complete physical examination.
-routine care, urgent care, specific problem
Articular structures
Answer: articular cartilage
intra-articular ligaments
juxta-articular bone
joint capsule
synovium
synovial fluid
Articular disease signs and symptoms
Answer: crepitus
deformity
instability locking of the joints
Limits active & passive ROM d/t stiffness/pain
Swelling
Tenderness of the joint
Extra-articular structures
Answer: bursae
bone
fascia
muscle
nerve
overlying skin
periarticular ligaments
tendons
Extra-articular disease involves
Answer: point of focal tenderness in regions adjacent to articular structures
-Limits active ROM
RARELY causes swelling, instability, joint deformity
Nonarticular conditions
Answer: trauma/fracture, fibromyalgia, polymyalgia rheumatica, bursitis, tendinitis
