Random Scenarios
Your patient has been recently given a new medication and is complaining about light headedness. You complete their vital signs and see that their blood pressure is 85/42. You should report this blood pressure to the provider as this.
What is hypotension?
You patient is very dehydration and has not had a bowel movement in 3 days, AKA this.
What is constipation?
You have a patient that is struggling with urination due to an issue with these bean-shaped organs.
What are the kidneys?
Your patient comes in with a respiratory illness that results in congestion, coughing, a discolored this, a different name for mucus.
What is sputum?
A patient comes in with a dislocated shoulder, which is an example of this type of joint.
What is a ball-and-socket joint?
A patient comes in stating they were in a motor vehicle accident (MVA). They complain of neck pain, dizziness, blurred vision, and you see visible contusion to the front and back of their head. The patient shows signs and symptoms of this damage to two sides of the brain.
What is coup-contrecoup?
Your patient complains of a burning sensation in their chest and throat aka this.
What is heartburn?
Patients that are confined to a bed, ill, elderly, paralyzed or with nervous/circulatory disease or injuries might have an inability to control their bladder known as this.
Your adult patient has a respiratory rate of 8 breaths per minute, which could result in a lower this, the measurement of oxygen in the blood.
What is oxygen saturation or SPO2?
A patient recently had surgery on their hand and is in physical/occupational therapy. The patient could be expected to practice this range of motion exercise to help with motor function.
What is opposition?
Your doctor has informed you that you have a patient that has come in with chronic myalgia of the latissimus dorsi. What is the simple explanation of this diagnosis? (Need to explain and physically locate)
Muscle pain of the patients lats (located posterior and lateral).
Your doctor has asked you to assist a patient with an enema, requiring you to ensure the patient is in this position.
What is Sims' position?
This is a condition in which a blockage of arteries in the kidneys causes high blood pressure.
What is renovascular hypertension?
A patient comes in with obvious signs of respiratory distress and states that they smoke a pack of cigarettes everyday. The doctor may diagnose them with this chronic respiratory disease of the lungs where patients have trouble breathing, coughing, breathlessness, and a rapid heartbeat.
What is emphysema?
A patient comes in with a diagnosed sprained wrist. To help support and align the limb, the patient would be given this device.
What is an orthotic device?
A patient comes into your clinic complaining about lightheadedness and has an SPO2 of 89%. This is the position you could put the patient into to promote better breathing while completing your assessment.
What is Fowler's or semi-Fowler's position?
You have a patient that comes in complaining of significant abdominal pain. Test results come back positive for high numbers of H. pylori, leading to this diagnosis.
What is peptic ulcers?
This is the type of catheter that remains inside the bladder for an extended period of time.
What is an indwelling catheter or Foley catheter?
You have a patient with a lower respiratory illness where their bronchial tubes are abnormally enlarged, also known as this.
What is bronchiectasis?
A patient was recently in a MVA which resulted in the loss of a limb. In the following months the patient states they experience this, where they claim they feel that limb is still there.
What is phantom limb sensation?
A patient comes in after a motor vehicle accident (MVA) and is struggling with memory and speech, indicating an injury to THIS part of the brain.
What is the cerebrum?
This is what the liver converts fats and sugars into.
What is glucose?
The doctor wants to test to see if the patient is ill by seeing if there is bacteria in their urine. The doctor would require this type of specimen to be collected.
What is a clean-catch urine specimen?
This is the name of the device that assists with giving patients oxygen and is a plastic piece of tubing that fits around the face, over the ears, and has two short prongs that sit gently inside the patient's nostrils.
What is a nasal cannula?
You have an elderly patient that is unable to effectively move their own limbs. A PCT would most likely have to help with this type of exercises.
What are Passive Range of Motion (PROM) exercises?