Exam 24: Musculoskeletal System

After an impact injury to the jaw, the nurse palpates the area in front of both ears to assess the function of the patient's:

A patient is being assessed for range-of-joint movement.The nurse asks him to move his arm in toward the centre of his body.This movement is called:

The nurse is examining a 6-month-old infant and places the infant's feet flat on the table and flexes his knees up.The nurse notes that the right knee is significantly lower than the left.Which of these statements is true of this finding?

A 14-year-old boy who has been diagnosed with Osgood-Schlatter disease reports painful swelling just below the knee for the past 5 months.Which response by the nurse is appropriate?

A 68-year-old woman has come in for an assessment of her rheumatoid arthritis, and the nurse notices raised, firm, nontender nodules at the olecranon bursa and along the ulna.These nodules are most commonly diagnosed as:

A man who has had gout for several years comes to the clinic with a problem with his toe.On examination, the nurse notices the presence of hard, painless nodules over the great toe; one has burst open with a chalky discharge.This finding is known as:

The nurse is assessing a patient who reports having functional difficulty and pain bending her knees when climbing stairs.The nurse will assess the functional unit of the musculoskeletal system involved, which is the:

A patient states, "I can hear a crunching or grating sound when I kneel." She also states that "it is very difficult to get out of bed in the morning because of stiffness and pain in my joints." The nurse should assess for signs of what problem?

The nurse notices that a woman in an exercise class is unable to jump rope.The nurse is aware that to jump rope, one's shoulder has to be capable of:

An 85-year-old patient comments during his annual physical examination that he seems to be getting shorter as he ages.The nurse should explain that decreased height occurs with aging because:

During an interview with a patient with aplastic anemia, the nurse explains that this condition can cause fatigue because of decreased production of new red blood cells by the musculoskeletal system in the: