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Assignment:

Midterm Blueprint for MSN5200 Fall 2023

1. Patient has a severe headache, stiff neck and a fever what problem could this presentation be?
2. What are the presentations for bronchitis, pneumonia, tuberculosis and pulmonary edema?
3. A patient has emphysema and bronchitis, what would you suspect to see in this patient?
4. What condition may contribute to having trouble reading, sewing or seeing faces well?
5. What does 20/10 mean in vision?
6. What is the soft spot in a newborn?
7. What are expected signs and symptoms of a long history of COPD?
8. What is a normal pupillary light reflex?
9. Edema to the occipital lobe will show what in the vision?
10. Which test will the NP perform to assess for cholecystitis?
11. A patient with pleuritis will have what assessment?
12. What does 20/30 mean in vision?
13. Cardiovascular examination reveals a PMI that is laterally displaced. There is a grade 3/6 holosystolic murmur at the apex with radiation to the axilla. An S3 is present which condition does the patient have?
14. The assessment findings include cyanosis, tachypnea, tracheal deviation to the right, decreased tactile fremitus on the left, hyperresonance on the left, and decreased breath sounds on the left. What is the patient having?
15. Complaining of wheezing and difficulty in breathing when working in his yard. The assessment findings include tachypnea, use of accessory neck muscles, prolonged expiration, intercostal retractions, decreased breath sounds, and expiratory wheezes, what is the patient having?
16. What is papilledema?
17. Who may have an S3? What conditions?
18. What are the signs and symptoms of COPD?
19. Where are the structures? Gallbladder, appendix, spleen and sigmoid?
20. How long should you listen to bowel sounds?

To correctly document absent bowel sounds, one must listen continuously for

a. 30 seconds.

b. 1 minute.

c. 3 minutes.

d. 5 minutes.

e. 10 minutes.

Absent bowel sounds are confirmed after listening to each quadrant for 5 minutes.

1. What does a positive fluid wave mean in the abdominal assessment?
2. Where will the NP palpate the apical impulse?
3. What does unequal chest expansion mean?
4. What does it mean when fontanels are depressed and sunken?
5. How does the NP test for peripheral vision?
6. What does "cotton wool" or clouds in the eyes signify?
7. What cranial nerves are involved in an eye exam?
8. What is the term for an enlarged liver?
9. How does the NP assess movements of the eyes?
10. What is aniscoria?
11. In assessing risk factors for heart disease what should the NP ask?
12. What does 2 to 1 and 1 to 1 on the AP diameter mean? What will the patient's assessment differ?
13. What will be the assessment of a patient with a pneumothorax?
14. What is the correct way to assess lungs in the patient?
15. How does the NP assess auscultation in different sites on the thorax?
16. Know the different percussion sounds in the abdominal assessment.
17. What does visual accommodation mean?
18. When should the NP perform deep palpation in the abdominal assessment?
19. How do you assess a teenager for visual acuity?
20. What would you expect when assessing a patient with asthma?
21. What are the primary muscles for respiration?
22. What are the differences from the left and right lungs?
23. How do you assess for tactile fremitus?
24. What do cranial nerves XI do?
25. What are the valve closures within the second intercostal space?
26. Know anatomy of the abdomen- spleen, sigmoid colon, appendix and gallbladder
27. Which cranial nerve is used with the Snellen chart?
28. Which eye conditions are assessed immediately?
29. Know anatomy liver, duodenum, gallbladder and sigmoid colon.
30. What does an S3 signify in an adult? In a child?