NR-509 Advanced Physical Assessment
NR509 Midterm Exam
What is the process of a blood shot eye?
Correct Answer:
When the conjunctiva can swell and become inflamed from infection or injury
Comet, or concerning symptoms regarding the eyes
Correct Answer:
Change in vision, such as blurred vision, loss of vision, floaters are flashing lights, I pain, redness, or tearing, double vision, or diplopia
Hyperopia
Correct Answer:
farsightedness
presbyopia
Correct Answer:
Aging vision
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myopia
Correct Answer:
nearsightedness; lack of foresight
How to inspect the light reflection in the corneas?
Correct Answer:
Send about 2 feet directly in front of the patient trying to lay into their eyes and ask the patient to look at it. They should be visible slightly nasal to the center of the pupils.
What does a symmetry of the Cornell reflections indicate?
Correct Answer:
Deviation from normal ocular alignment
nystagmus
Correct Answer:
Find rhythmic auscultation of eyes. A few beats if nystagmus on extreme lateral gaze is normal
When is sustained nystagmus seen
Correct Answer:
congenital disorders, labyrinthitis, cerebellar disorders, and drug toxicity
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