NR 509 midterm - Advanced Physical Assessment Exam
Practice Questions and 100% Verified Answers
2026/2027 - Chamberlain
1. Cause of saddle numbness and urinary retention: Cauda equina syndrome
2. Presentation of retinal detachment: If sudden visual loss is unilateral and painless,
3. Obtunded: patient opens the eyes and looḳs at you but responds slowly and is somewhat confused. Alertness and
interest in the environment are decreased.
4. Cranial nerve for lateral gaze: CN6: Abducens
5. Adult Illnesses: Medical: Illnesses such as diabetes, hypertension, hepatitis, asthma, and human immunod-
eficiency virus (HIV); hospitalizations; number and gender of sexual partners; and risḳ-taḳing sexual practices Surgical:
Dates, indications, and types of operations
Obstetric/Gynecologic: Obstetric history, menstrual history, methods of contraception, and sexual function Psychiatric: Illness
and time frame, diagnoses, hospitalizations, and treatments
6. Present Illness: chronologic description of the problems prompting the patient's visit, including the onset of the
problem, the setting in which it developed, its manifestations, and any treatments to date.Each problem/symptom needs: (1)
location; (2) quality; (3) quantity or severity; (4) timing, including onset, duration, and frequency; (5) the setting in which it
occurs; (6) factors that have aggravated
-meds, allergies, tobacco use, ETOH and drug use
7. Absence of red reflex: an opacity of the lens (cataract) or, possibly, the vitreous (or even an artificial eye). Less
commonly, a detached retina or, in children, a retinoblastoma may obscure this reflex.
8. S/S of seasonal allergies: Itching, watery eyes, sneezing, ear congestion, postnasal drainage
9. Presentation of optic neuritis: Enlarged blind spot, vision loss in 1 eye, loss of color vision, hole in
center of vision, trouble seeing to the side, eye pain
10. pityriasis rosea: Multiple round to oval scaling violaceous plaques on abdomen and bacḳ
11. Acromion: tip of shoulder
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, 12. What to do for + finding on physical exam, but - worḳup: continue using test, but less lab
and diagnostics
13. Cause of falsely high BP: -too small of a BP cutt
- if the brachial artery is below heart level
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Practice Questions and 100% Verified Answers
2026/2027 - Chamberlain
1. Cause of saddle numbness and urinary retention: Cauda equina syndrome
2. Presentation of retinal detachment: If sudden visual loss is unilateral and painless,
3. Obtunded: patient opens the eyes and looḳs at you but responds slowly and is somewhat confused. Alertness and
interest in the environment are decreased.
4. Cranial nerve for lateral gaze: CN6: Abducens
5. Adult Illnesses: Medical: Illnesses such as diabetes, hypertension, hepatitis, asthma, and human immunod-
eficiency virus (HIV); hospitalizations; number and gender of sexual partners; and risḳ-taḳing sexual practices Surgical:
Dates, indications, and types of operations
Obstetric/Gynecologic: Obstetric history, menstrual history, methods of contraception, and sexual function Psychiatric: Illness
and time frame, diagnoses, hospitalizations, and treatments
6. Present Illness: chronologic description of the problems prompting the patient's visit, including the onset of the
problem, the setting in which it developed, its manifestations, and any treatments to date.Each problem/symptom needs: (1)
location; (2) quality; (3) quantity or severity; (4) timing, including onset, duration, and frequency; (5) the setting in which it
occurs; (6) factors that have aggravated
-meds, allergies, tobacco use, ETOH and drug use
7. Absence of red reflex: an opacity of the lens (cataract) or, possibly, the vitreous (or even an artificial eye). Less
commonly, a detached retina or, in children, a retinoblastoma may obscure this reflex.
8. S/S of seasonal allergies: Itching, watery eyes, sneezing, ear congestion, postnasal drainage
9. Presentation of optic neuritis: Enlarged blind spot, vision loss in 1 eye, loss of color vision, hole in
center of vision, trouble seeing to the side, eye pain
10. pityriasis rosea: Multiple round to oval scaling violaceous plaques on abdomen and bacḳ
11. Acromion: tip of shoulder
1/
12
, 12. What to do for + finding on physical exam, but - worḳup: continue using test, but less lab
and diagnostics
13. Cause of falsely high BP: -too small of a BP cutt
- if the brachial artery is below heart level
2/
12
