NRNP6540 Week 4 Knowledge Check Latest 2021 May

NRNP6540 Advanced Practice Care of Older Adults

Week 4 Knowledge Check   

Question 1What would your next step be for a patient you suspect has a diagnosis of acute angle glaucoma?

Question 2Describe the characteristics of dry, nonexudative, or atrophic macular degeneration.

Question 3You are performing a commercial driver’s exam on a 69-year-old male. He jokes that his wife says he “never listens to her.” You perform an ear exam. You find that he has cerumen impaction bilaterally. How would you treat this?

Question 4Epistaxis (nose bleeds) can be more common in an older person. Name three reasons epistaxis can occur in an older person.

Question 5You suspect your patient may have a hordeolum or chalazion Please list at least four differential diagnoses that need to be considered and ruled out:

Question 6What education would you give your older patients about the preventable causes of hearing loss?

Question 7Your 81-year-old patient comes to the clinical complaining of decreasing vision in her left eye, with worsening night vision. She states the glare from other headlights bother her so much she has given up night driving. What do you suspect is her diagnosis?

Question 8What type of glaucoma causes the most blindness in African Americans in the U.S.?

Question 9Although epistaxis can be more common in an older person, name two reasons a nosebleed would warrant an ENT referral?

Question 10To evaluate for cataracts, what would your examination include?