NUR-634 Midterm Exam All Possible Questions and Answers | 2025 Update
You have a patient who comes in that is super talkative. At the end of it all, what tools do you have to
find out what the patient actually came in for? - (answer)Redirect and summarize
Blood in the eye. What are some questions you'd like to ask? - (answer)Recent trauma, double vision,
OPQRST, nausea (Dx: subconjunctival hemorrhage from retching)
What is a normal finding of visual changes as we age? - (answer)Presbyopia
What is the order of exam for a new patient? - (answer)a. Introduction
b. Chief complaint
c. HPI
d. Dx/plan
e. Summarize
If I had a person ask me as I was palpating their lymph nodes, why their lymph nodes get large, what
would your answer be? - (answer)B Cell proliferation, which makes more cells, hence enlargement
Which lymph nodes sit just behind the sternocleidomastoid? - (answer)Posterior cervical chain
A patient comes in with really vague overall muscle complaints, fatigue with no accident or mechanism
of injury, what is something that is really important to screen for? - (answer)Depression
If a patient has double vision with one eye covered? Which cranial nerve are you concerned about? -
(answer)Cranial Nerve III
A patient that comes in with elbow pain that is worse on the right and pain when she extends her wrist,
what would you suspect? - (answer)a. Medial epicondylitis (Golfer's elbow)
, NUR-634 Midterm Exam All Possible Questions and Answers | 2025 Update
b. Tennis elbow presents with pain and tenderness experienced on the outside of the elbow, while
golfer's elbow can be felt on the inside of your elbow and down the arm.
Pt has a lump that requires an I&D and it has a very "cheesy" substance that comes out. You will
document that you just removed what? - (answer)A sebaceous cyst.
If a patient has a cup to disc ratio of 1:2, then what is happening? - (answer)Flatter disc, so less likely to
be a glaucoma suspect
What is your #1 DDx if I say I have chest pain that is sharp, right over my sternum - (answer)Angina
What is the main cause of Angina? - (answer)Atherosclerosis
If you have a patient with sudden, non-painful loss of vision, what would you suspect? - (answer)Retinal
detachment
If you have a patient with painful loss of vision in one eye, what would you suspect - (answer)optic
Neuritis
The tender point between the two tendons at the base of the thumb (the snuff box area), we relate that
to what type of fracture? - (answer)Scaphoid fracture
What are the landmarks for PMI (point of maximal impulse)? - (answer)a. the bony point of your
sternum
b. the 5th intercostal spaces
c. the midclavicular line (7-9 cm lateral to the sternum)
a patient has pain while chewing, but only on one side of the face. What are some DDx? - (answer)TMJ
You have a patient who comes in that is super talkative. At the end of it all, what tools do you have to
find out what the patient actually came in for? - (answer)Redirect and summarize
Blood in the eye. What are some questions you'd like to ask? - (answer)Recent trauma, double vision,
OPQRST, nausea (Dx: subconjunctival hemorrhage from retching)
What is a normal finding of visual changes as we age? - (answer)Presbyopia
What is the order of exam for a new patient? - (answer)a. Introduction
b. Chief complaint
c. HPI
d. Dx/plan
e. Summarize
If I had a person ask me as I was palpating their lymph nodes, why their lymph nodes get large, what
would your answer be? - (answer)B Cell proliferation, which makes more cells, hence enlargement
Which lymph nodes sit just behind the sternocleidomastoid? - (answer)Posterior cervical chain
A patient comes in with really vague overall muscle complaints, fatigue with no accident or mechanism
of injury, what is something that is really important to screen for? - (answer)Depression
If a patient has double vision with one eye covered? Which cranial nerve are you concerned about? -
(answer)Cranial Nerve III
A patient that comes in with elbow pain that is worse on the right and pain when she extends her wrist,
what would you suspect? - (answer)a. Medial epicondylitis (Golfer's elbow)
, NUR-634 Midterm Exam All Possible Questions and Answers | 2025 Update
b. Tennis elbow presents with pain and tenderness experienced on the outside of the elbow, while
golfer's elbow can be felt on the inside of your elbow and down the arm.
Pt has a lump that requires an I&D and it has a very "cheesy" substance that comes out. You will
document that you just removed what? - (answer)A sebaceous cyst.
If a patient has a cup to disc ratio of 1:2, then what is happening? - (answer)Flatter disc, so less likely to
be a glaucoma suspect
What is your #1 DDx if I say I have chest pain that is sharp, right over my sternum - (answer)Angina
What is the main cause of Angina? - (answer)Atherosclerosis
If you have a patient with sudden, non-painful loss of vision, what would you suspect? - (answer)Retinal
detachment
If you have a patient with painful loss of vision in one eye, what would you suspect - (answer)optic
Neuritis
The tender point between the two tendons at the base of the thumb (the snuff box area), we relate that
to what type of fracture? - (answer)Scaphoid fracture
What are the landmarks for PMI (point of maximal impulse)? - (answer)a. the bony point of your
sternum
b. the 5th intercostal spaces
c. the midclavicular line (7-9 cm lateral to the sternum)
a patient has pain while chewing, but only on one side of the face. What are some DDx? - (answer)TMJ
