Eyes
Disorders
Ears
Medications
Disorders
100

What equipment is used to measure ocular pressure?

What is a tonometer?

100

How are patients taught to sneeze after a Stapedectomy? 

What is with their mouth open?

100

How are adult ear drops administered?

What is pulling the pinna up and back?

100

What is proper eye patch education for a nurse to give to a patient? 

What is - do not read. Do not watch TV. Listen to audio books/music. Rest eyes. Do not exercise eyes. Do not apply pressure to eyes?

100

What are manifestation of diabetic retinopathy? 

What is seeing spots in vision and unable to distinguish like colors?

200

What does PERRLA mean? 

What is pupils equal round reactive to light?

200

With POAG what is an important medication education that must be reviewed with the patient?

What is taking medications every single day to prevent increased IOP- which would lead to irreversible blindness?

200

What are risk factors for developing external otitis? 

What is swimming?

200

If a substance that is harmful (battery acid) gets into a patient's eye- what should the nurse do first? 

What is flush/irrigate the eye with sterile solution?

200

What are manifestations of Meniere's disease? 

What is dizziness, unilateral hearing loss, and tinnitus?

300

What is consensual response?

What is when both eyes react at the same time to a light shone into only one of the eyes?

300

What are manifestations of POAG?

What is loss of peripheral vision, halos around lights?

300

What tests are completed using a tuning fork?

What is Weber and Rinne tests?

300

What are patient education points about Furosemide/ Lasix?  

What is wear sunblock, ototoxic, monitor Potassium levels?

300

What are manifestations of a detached retina?  

What is flashing lights, loss of visual acuity, loss of peripheral vision, cob like appearance with eventual total loss of vision? 

400

What is punctual occlusion?

What is when the nurse applies pressure to the puncta  (corner of the eye) to the bone?

400

What are manifestations of cataracts? 

What is decreased color perception and blurry vision?

400

What does AC is greater than BC mean? Is this an expected finding> 

What is air conduction is greater than bone conduction? What is yes?

400

What class of medications should a patient with AACG not take? Provide an example.  

What is mydriatics? What is atropine?

400

If a patient suffers from presbycusis what are nursing interventions that can e used to help the patient hear better?  

What is speaking in low tones slowly- facing the patient and eliminating background noise?

500

What is astigmatism?

What is the uneven curvature of the cornea (oval instead of round) resulting in blurred vision?

500

What is presbyopia? 

A common change in vision when a person is 40 or older. The eye loses its elasticity making it hard to focus on objects that are close- often causing the person to pull things away to see them better. 

500

Why do older adults have a greater risk/occurrences of cerumen impactions?

What is the shrinking of the ear canal and the dryness of cerumen?

500

What is an adverse effect of Timolol eye drops that are used for the treatment of POAG?

What is bradycardia?

500

After a stapedectomy what actions y the patient  should the nurse call the doctor about?

What is anything that potentially extrudes the prosthetic stapes? Example- vomiting, excessive sneezing/coughing.

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