NR 509 MIDTERM EXAM UPDATED
2024/2025 QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS GRADED A+
CHAMBERLAIN
Identify the Cause of saddle numbness and urinary retention Answers
: Cauda equina syndrome
Presentation of retinal detachment Answers: If sudden visual loss is
unilateral and painless
Explain Obtunded
Answers: the patient opens their eyes and looks at you but responds
slowly and is somewhat confused. Alertness and interest in the
environment are decreased.
Identify the Cranial nerve for lateral gaze Answers CN6: Abducens
What is Adult Illnesses
Answers: Medical: Illnesses such as diabetes, hypertension, hepatitis,
asthma, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); hospitalizations;
number and gender of sexual partners; and risk-taking 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
, Explain the Present Illness
Answers: 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
What is the Absence of a red reflex
Answers: 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.
Identify the S/S of seasonal allergies Answers: Itching, watery eyes,
sneezing, ear congestion, postnasal drainage
Identify the Presentation of optic neuritis Answers: Enlarged blind
spot, vision loss in 1 eye, loss of color vision, hole in center of vision,
trouble seeing to the side, eye pain
What is pityriasis rosea ANSWERS : Multiple round to oval scaling
violaceous plaques on the abdomen and back
Acromion Answer: the tip of the shoulder
What do we when finding on physical exam, but - workup