Quiz by Ma'am 1

Cards (20)

  • The nurse in the Medical-Surgical Ward is auscultating the thyroid gland of her patient for possible enlargement of the gland. She is auscultating for what sound?
    Bruit
  • The nurse performs proper palpation of the submental nodes by
    Lightly palpating under the tip of the client's chin
  • The nurse is assigned to assess the movement of the thyroid and cricoid cartilage as well as the thyroid gland of the patient. The instruction will be?
    Swallow a small sip of water
  • The staff nurse is assessing the abnormal increase of the head size in the young child due to abnormal accumulation of fluid in the ventricles. What is this condition called?
    Hydrocephalus
  • A palpable lymph node is intact if the characteristics are
    mobile node, soft, 1 cm, non-tender, and superficial
  • A 42-year-old woman who has problems with her mandible. Therefore, the nurse assesses her temporomandibular joint by doing ROM. She also asked the patient to open and close the jaw for any presence of
    pain
  • A clinic nurse notes that after several eye examinations, the physician has a documented a diagnosis of legal blindness in a client's chart. The nurse reviews the result of the Snellen Chart test and noted which finding?
    20/200 vision
  • This is a condition wherein there is a deviation of the eye which the patient cannot overcome.
    Strabismus
  • It is a defect in vision in advancing age which involves loss of accommodation or recession of near vision that is usually due to elasticity of crystalline lens or also known as farsightedness.
    Presbyopia
  • In assessing the eye for its accommodation, the nurse is also assessing the following cranial nerves
    CN III, IV, VI
  • The clinical instructor asks the student nurse in the clinical area about testing the near vision acuity of the patient assigned to her. She is going to perform Rosenbaum Test. What is the cranial nerve being tested here?
    Oculomotor Nerve
  • When palpating the thyroid, the nurse locates the thyroid isthmus below the cricoid cartilage anteriorly by
    Sliding the fingers to the right, gently displace the trachea to the right, and palpate gland as patient swallows.
  • Nurse Anita inspects the bulbar conjunctiva of a client and documented a growth or thickening of conjunctiva from the inner canthal area toward iris that indicates a sign of
    pterygium or pinguecula
  • The procedure in testing visual acuity uses a Snellen Chart. The nurse understands the following procedure in testing visual acuity includes, except:
    The covered eye will read the TOP letter (which is the letter “E”) at 20 ft.
  •  A corneal abnormality that indicates neurological problem, CN V and VII and may be absent or diminished in people who wear contact lenses is known as
    Negative corneal reflex
  • A nurse inspects a client’s ear and suspects Microtia which is an abnormal finding wherein:
    The client’s ears are less than 4cm vertical height in adults seen in some genetic disorder
  • The nurse in the Medical Ward was inspecting the client’s eyes. She noticed a deviation when there is a presence of:
    sunken eyes
  • Normal findings were documented by the nurse when she inspected the client’s neck in the morning. The nurse understand that the following are normal, except:
    The client has visible deviation on one side of the neck caused by spasmodic contraction of neck muscles
  • The nurse is assessing head and neck with the findings of inconsistently large head size in adolescent or adult: may indicate:
    acromegaly
  • The new nurse in the Medical Ward is performing inspection of the client’s facial movements and notices that there is a deviation when:
    client has drooping of lower eyelid &mouth