NUR 634 midterm
1. erratic patient telling you all personal information; what should you do?
Answer sum- marize what the patient is here for to clarify her needs
2. Pt complains of SOB and coughing at night. Upon examination you hear
wheezing upon expiration?
Answer asthma
3. Patient presents with blood around the eyes, denies pain, trauma. Starting
this morning, nothing makes it better or worse. Coughed all night long.
Answer subcon- junctival hemorrhage
4. patient diagnosed with GERD. what education do you provide about foods?-
Answer avoid spicy, fatty, acidic, sweets and catteine
5. what type of meal should you have with GERD?
Answer reduced meal size
6. what should you avoid with GERD?
,Answer tight clothing, avoid bending/stooping after meals, avoid recumbence until 2 hours after
meal
7. how should you sleep with GERD
Answer HOB elevated with entire chest up
8. what lifestyle choices to make with GERD
Answer smoking cessation and reduce alcohol
9. dull lung sound on percussion
Answer consolidated pneumonia, unilateral or bilateral
10. what is the normal physiological change in vision in the elderly?
Answer presbyopia (near sited?)
11. patient complains of being sick, upon physical examination, nodules behind
the sternocleidomatoid. what lymph nodes are inflamed?
Answer posterior cervical lymph nodes
12. female c/o being tiredness, and body has been hurting for two months. what
do you suspect?
,Answer depression
13. patient c/o double vision out of one eye. what CN is affected?
Answer CN 3
14. patient c/o elbow pain that runs along medial epicondylitis and pain increas-
es when wrist is extended. What do you suspect?
Answer golfer's elbow
15. pain at lateral epicondyle. what do you suspect?
Answer tennis elbow
16. I&D performed on a lump found on patient back. Cheesy substance leeks out
as you cut incision. what dermatologic issue would you suspect?
Answer sebaceous cyst
17. disc to cup ratio?
Answer 1
Answer3
18. if your patient has a cup to disc ratio of 1
, Answer2, what DDX would you consider?-
Answer glaucoma
1. erratic patient telling you all personal information; what should you do?
Answer sum- marize what the patient is here for to clarify her needs
2. Pt complains of SOB and coughing at night. Upon examination you hear
wheezing upon expiration?
Answer asthma
3. Patient presents with blood around the eyes, denies pain, trauma. Starting
this morning, nothing makes it better or worse. Coughed all night long.
Answer subcon- junctival hemorrhage
4. patient diagnosed with GERD. what education do you provide about foods?-
Answer avoid spicy, fatty, acidic, sweets and catteine
5. what type of meal should you have with GERD?
Answer reduced meal size
6. what should you avoid with GERD?
,Answer tight clothing, avoid bending/stooping after meals, avoid recumbence until 2 hours after
meal
7. how should you sleep with GERD
Answer HOB elevated with entire chest up
8. what lifestyle choices to make with GERD
Answer smoking cessation and reduce alcohol
9. dull lung sound on percussion
Answer consolidated pneumonia, unilateral or bilateral
10. what is the normal physiological change in vision in the elderly?
Answer presbyopia (near sited?)
11. patient complains of being sick, upon physical examination, nodules behind
the sternocleidomatoid. what lymph nodes are inflamed?
Answer posterior cervical lymph nodes
12. female c/o being tiredness, and body has been hurting for two months. what
do you suspect?
,Answer depression
13. patient c/o double vision out of one eye. what CN is affected?
Answer CN 3
14. patient c/o elbow pain that runs along medial epicondylitis and pain increas-
es when wrist is extended. What do you suspect?
Answer golfer's elbow
15. pain at lateral epicondyle. what do you suspect?
Answer tennis elbow
16. I&D performed on a lump found on patient back. Cheesy substance leeks out
as you cut incision. what dermatologic issue would you suspect?
Answer sebaceous cyst
17. disc to cup ratio?
Answer 1
Answer3
18. if your patient has a cup to disc ratio of 1
, Answer2, what DDX would you consider?-
Answer glaucoma
