HEENT BOARD VITALS QUIZ CORRECT
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A
HEENT Board Vitals Quiz:
1. When examining the eyes, the nurse practitioner determines that the pupils change
size when the client focuses from a close object to a distant object. This is interpreted
as:
a. Normal visual accommodation
b. Intact extra ocular motor response
c. Appropriate consensual response
d. Visual acuity within normal limits
2. A 21-year-old man presents to his health care provider for a 2-week history of ear pain
and pruritus. On further questioning, he reports ear fullness and trouble hearing. He is a
senior in college on a swimming scholarship. He has had these episodes in the past but
not to this extent. On physical exam, his TM is difficult to visualize, but it is mobile
without any inflammation. There is pain on palpation of the tragus. Pain is also elicited
with traction of the pinna. Which of the following treatments should be prescribed for
this patient?
a. Hydrocortisone/neomycin/polymyxin B
b. Amoxicillin
c. Amoxicillin/clavulanate
, HEENT BOARD VITALS QUIZ CORRECT
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A
d. Tacrolimus cream
3. An elderly client presents to the nurse practitioner’s office with fever and complaints
of right facial pain, copious yellow nasal drainage, and acute pain and headache when
bending over. The symptoms have been occurring for about 5 days. There is not trans
illumination of the right maxillary sinus and that area is very tender to palpation. The
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A
HEENT Board Vitals Quiz:
1. When examining the eyes, the nurse practitioner determines that the pupils change
size when the client focuses from a close object to a distant object. This is interpreted
as:
a. Normal visual accommodation
b. Intact extra ocular motor response
c. Appropriate consensual response
d. Visual acuity within normal limits
2. A 21-year-old man presents to his health care provider for a 2-week history of ear pain
and pruritus. On further questioning, he reports ear fullness and trouble hearing. He is a
senior in college on a swimming scholarship. He has had these episodes in the past but
not to this extent. On physical exam, his TM is difficult to visualize, but it is mobile
without any inflammation. There is pain on palpation of the tragus. Pain is also elicited
with traction of the pinna. Which of the following treatments should be prescribed for
this patient?
a. Hydrocortisone/neomycin/polymyxin B
b. Amoxicillin
c. Amoxicillin/clavulanate
, HEENT BOARD VITALS QUIZ CORRECT
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A
d. Tacrolimus cream
3. An elderly client presents to the nurse practitioner’s office with fever and complaints
of right facial pain, copious yellow nasal drainage, and acute pain and headache when
bending over. The symptoms have been occurring for about 5 days. There is not trans
illumination of the right maxillary sinus and that area is very tender to palpation. The
