Exam 36: Chronic Musculoskeletal Disorders

The nurse is teaching the parents of a child with scoliosis about the disorder. What would the nurse explain is the recommended treatment for a 15-degree curve of the spine?

When assessing a patient with a herniated disc in the lumbar region, the nurse would expect to find:

Which statement by a patient with Paget disease indicates that the nurse needs to reinforce teaching?

How should the nurse respond when a 28-weeks-pregnant woman asks if she will need surgery after her baby is born to relieve the constant back pain she has been experiencing?

The nurse should expect to assess which finding in a patient with intervertebral disc degeneration?

Which priority intervention should the nurse anticipate in the patient admitted with cauda equine syndrome?

When preparing a patient for a discectomy, the nurse explains that this procedure:

When a baby is born with congenital scoliosis, the nurse should also assess for problems with which other organs?

The school nurse is screening middle-school students for scoliosis and notes that one student has a curve of 15 degrees. The nurse tells the parents that their child has:

A patient with rheumatoid arthritis tells the nurse that the physician told him he has Felty syndrome and asks the nurse what it means. Which of the following conditions does the nurse include in her description of this syndrome?

The nurse anticipates that a patient experiencing neuropathic pain caused by lumbar disc herniation may be treated with:

Which assessment findings in a 7-year-old child suggests a diagnosis of psoriatic arthritis?

Which finding should the nurse expect when assessing a patient with osteoarthritis?

Which laboratory values would the nurse expect to find in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)?

To perform scoliosis screening using the Adam forward bend test, what action does the nurse take?

Which statement indicates to the nurse that the patient with lower back pain due to intervertebral disc degeneration does not understand the goal of physical therapy?

When preparing a community program on joint disease, the nurse recognizes that which group is most at risk for rheumatoid arthritis?

Which statement is typical of data collected on a patient with mild spinal stenosis?

The nurse notices that a pregnant woman has an exaggerated concavity of her spine. The nurse documents this as:

Which statement by a female patient with osteopenia indicates that more teaching about risk factors is needed?