Exam 52: Ear and Hearing Disorders

Because the 85-year-old patient has had age-related changes in the cochlea,the nurse will:

The 75-year-old patient complains to the nurse that although she has cleaned her ears with cotton-tipped applicators for weeks,she still cannot hear her television unless the volume is loud and she misses a great deal of conversations.On examining her ears,the nurse anticipates:

The patient undergoing a Weber test says that the sound is louder in her left ear.This means that the patient has:

Because the 94-year-old patient is receiving gentamicin sulfate (Garamycin)in a continuous intravenous (IV)infusion,the nurse will add to the nursing care plan the diagnosis,"Risk for injury" and will make implementation of:

A patient with diabetes says that he needs a hearing aid because he cannot hear well and everything sounds garbled and distant.The nurse's most informative response would be that a hearing aid may not help him because he probably has:

A 75-year-old patient reports having difficulty hearing in crowds but can hear just fine at home with his wife.The nurse responds that,"Your description sounds like _______________."

The 75-year-old patient has normal age-related changes in his ear that include all except:

The nurse assessing the results of a Rinne test sees the notation of BC >AC.The nurse translates this to mean that the patient has:

For the nursing care plan for a patient with Ménière disease,the nursing diagnosis that would take priority would be:

On an intake physical examination,the patient reports that he has been taking 10 aspirin tablets a day for his arthritis.Based on this information the nurse should ask:

Behaviors that would alert the nurse to a possible hearing deficit would be when the patient: (Select all that apply.)

The nurse has noted some common characteristics in patients with conductive hearing loss,which are evident when the patient: (Select all that apply.)

The nursing report on a newly admitted patient who is profoundly deaf says that the patient is confused and difficult to assess because she does not appropriately respond to questions or sometimes fails to respond at all.The oncoming nurse will initially:

The young woman being admitted to the clinic service states that all the members of her family have been hard of hearing.She says her hearing loss became more pronounced when she was pregnant.You suspect that this patient has a type of hearing loss called:

When making the initial assessment on a patient with a hearing deficit,the patient reports that he often feels off balance and is dizzy when he stands up.These symptoms could be explained by:

When the nurse reads in the patient's history that the patient has experienced otalgia,the nurse knows that the patient has:

The nurse uses a diagram to show the physiologic sequence of hearing.After entering the external ear,the sound is then conducted through the: (Arrange the options in sequence.)

The patient reports her hearing loss has become more severe over the last 3 months.The clinic nurse makes arrangements for an evaluation for a hearing aid by an:

A significant instruction to a patient being discharged after ear surgery is to:

The patient complains that his hearing aid is not working.The nurse should assess the device by: (Select all that apply.)