NR 509 midterm questions with complete solutions
2025
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
2025
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
