MS 1: Musculoskeletal Function
Kyphosis
A client has an exaggerated convex (curves outward; "hunchback") curvature of the thoracic spine. What is this condition called?
Bursitis
A client tells the health care provider about shoulder pain that is present even without any strenuous movement. The health care provider identifies a sac filled with synovial fluid. What condition will the nurse educate the client about?
Remodeling
After a fracture, during which stage or phase of bone healing is devitalized tissue removed and new bone reorganized into its former structural arrangement?
Osteoblasts
An instructor is describing the process of bone development. Which of the following would the instructor describe as being responsible for the process of ossification?
80-year-old man recently widowed
The nurse is conducting a community education program on hip fractures. The nurse evaluates that the participants understand the program when the participants determine that the client at highest risk for a fracture is a(n)
Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry
The nurse is teaching a client about osteoporosis. What diagnostic test will the nurse include with the client teaching?
"Weight-bearing exercises can strengthen bones."
The older client asks the nurse how best to maintain strong bones. What is the nurse's best response?
Calcitonin
Which hormone inhibits bone resorption and increases the deposit of calcium in the bone?
Tendon
A client is seen in the ER for a knee injury that happened during a basketball game. Diagnostic tests reveal torn cords of fibrous connective tissue that connects muscles to bone. What type of tear has this client sustained?
Ossification and calcification
A nurse is caring for a client with an undiagnosed bone disease. When instructing on the normal process to maintain bone tissue, which process transforms osteoblasts into mature bone cells?
Reactive phase, reparative phase, remodeling phase
A patient has a fracture of the right femur sustained in an automotive accident. What process of fracture healing does the nurse understand will occur with this patient?
Flaccidity
A patient has had a stroke and is unable to move the right upper extremity. During assessment the nurse picks up the arm and its limp without tone. How would the nurse document this finding?
Supination
An NP assess a patient's movement in his left hand after a cast is removed. The nurse asks the patient to turn his wrist so the palm of his had is facing up. This movement is known as:
Sternum
An example of a flat bone is the..
Shuffling
The nurse is assigned to a client admitted with advanced Parkinson's disease. What type of gait correlates with Parkinson's Disease?
Cochlear implant
The nurse is caring for a client scheduled to have magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The nurse contacts the health care provider to cancel the MRI when the nurse reads which element in the client's medical hx?
Pulselesness
The nurse is caring for a client who experienced a crushing injury of the lower extremities. Which of the following symptoms is essential to be reported to the physician?
Ask the client to plantar flex the toes.
The nurse is performing a neurological assessment. What will this assessment include?
Dusky or mottled skin color
The nurse is performing a neurovascular assessment of a client's injured extremity. Which would the nurse report?
"Weight-resistance exercises can strengthen muscles."
The older client asks the nurse how best to maintain strong muscles. What is the nurse's best response?
Clonus
What is the term for a rhythmic contraction of a muscle?
Compartment Syndrome
Which is a neurovascular problem caused by pressure within a muscle area that increases to such an extent that microcirculation diminishes?
Flaccid
Which of the following described a muscle that is limp and without tone?
Athrocentesis
Which of the following diagnostic studies are done to relieve joint pain due to effusion?
Lamellae
Which term refers to mature compact bone structures that form concentric rings of bone matrix?
Abduction
Which term refers to moving away from midline?
Diaphysis
Which term refers to the shaft of the long bone?
Abnormal sensations
While reading a client's chart, the nurse notices that the client is documented to have paresthesia. The nurse plans care for a client with:
