Orthopedic Nurse Certification Exam
ORTHOPEDIC NURSE CERTIFICATION EXAM NEWEST 2025/2026
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |BRAND NEW VERSION!!
Which of the following structures provide separation of sterile sterile supplies,
staff, and equipment from the non-sterile area of anesthesia, electrocautery,
suction, and radiographic equipment?
a. special arthroscopy drape
b. vertical isolation drape
c. lateral split sheet
d. vertical irrigation drape - Correct Answer-b. vertical isolation drape
If the position required for the surgical procedure is a full lateral, the body
_____________ is used for support of the patient.
a. sandbag
b. beanbag
c. pillow
d. mattress - Correct Answer-b. beanbag
The surgical fixation or fusion of a joint is termed __________.
a. arthrotomy
b. arthroplasty
c. arthroscopy
d. arthrodesis - Correct Answer-d. arthrodesis
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The __________ is used to cut Steinman pins, while the ________ is used to
burrow an area in the bone for placement of implants.
a. pin cutter, reamer
b. Satterlee, Spratt bone curette
c. traction bow, Rush awl reamer
d. bone cutter, reciprocating saw - Correct Answer-a. pin cutter, reamer
All of the following consist of an outer plate, cancellous bone and an inner lamina
plate EXCEPT:
a. short bones
b. long bones
c. flat bones
d. irregular bones - Correct Answer-b. long bones
Limb replantation requires ______ and a mandatory _______ to avoid extensive
_______.
a. many specialists, exchange in personnel, fatigue
b. bone alignment and stabilization, restructuring process, vasculature or nerve
damage
c. clean disarticulation, realignment of the limb or digit, damage and potential
infection
d. extensive, detailed positioning, restructuring process, integration issues -
Correct Answer-a. many specialists, exchange in personnel, fatigue
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Arthritis includes all of the following EXCEPT:
a. OA
b. bursitis
c. RA
d. Perthes' Disease - Correct Answer-b. bursitis
The skull consists of __________ and __________ bones.
a. facial, mandible
b. cranial, skull
c. cranial, hyoid
d. cranial, maxillofacial - Correct Answer-d. cranial, maxillofacial
__________ fractures do not protrude through adjacent tissue. Bone __________
be displaced.
a. Open, must
b. Compound, may or may not
c. Incomplete, must
d. Simple, may or may not - Correct Answer-d. Simple, may or may not
All of the following are examples of splints EXCEPT:
a. sugar tong
b. hairpin
c. Minerva
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d. abduction - Correct Answer-c. Minerva
__________ joints allow free movement. This joint type connection is called
___________ articulation.
a. Cartilaginous, amphiarthrosis
b. Synovial, diarthrosis
c. Fibrous, diarthrosis
d. Synovial, synarthrosis - Correct Answer-b. Synovial, diarthrosis
All of the following are examples of orthopedic hemostatic agents EXCEPT:
a. thrombin
b. ethibond
c. bone wax
d. gelfoam - Correct Answer-b. ethibond
When a section of spongy bone is scooped out with a curved gouge, it is called
a(n) __________ graft.
a. cortical
b. homogenous
c. cancellous
d. autogenous - Correct Answer-c. cancellous
The Bristow procedure requires __________.
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ORTHOPEDIC NURSE CERTIFICATION EXAM NEWEST 2025/2026
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |BRAND NEW VERSION!!
Which of the following structures provide separation of sterile sterile supplies,
staff, and equipment from the non-sterile area of anesthesia, electrocautery,
suction, and radiographic equipment?
a. special arthroscopy drape
b. vertical isolation drape
c. lateral split sheet
d. vertical irrigation drape - Correct Answer-b. vertical isolation drape
If the position required for the surgical procedure is a full lateral, the body
_____________ is used for support of the patient.
a. sandbag
b. beanbag
c. pillow
d. mattress - Correct Answer-b. beanbag
The surgical fixation or fusion of a joint is termed __________.
a. arthrotomy
b. arthroplasty
c. arthroscopy
d. arthrodesis - Correct Answer-d. arthrodesis
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The __________ is used to cut Steinman pins, while the ________ is used to
burrow an area in the bone for placement of implants.
a. pin cutter, reamer
b. Satterlee, Spratt bone curette
c. traction bow, Rush awl reamer
d. bone cutter, reciprocating saw - Correct Answer-a. pin cutter, reamer
All of the following consist of an outer plate, cancellous bone and an inner lamina
plate EXCEPT:
a. short bones
b. long bones
c. flat bones
d. irregular bones - Correct Answer-b. long bones
Limb replantation requires ______ and a mandatory _______ to avoid extensive
_______.
a. many specialists, exchange in personnel, fatigue
b. bone alignment and stabilization, restructuring process, vasculature or nerve
damage
c. clean disarticulation, realignment of the limb or digit, damage and potential
infection
d. extensive, detailed positioning, restructuring process, integration issues -
Correct Answer-a. many specialists, exchange in personnel, fatigue
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Arthritis includes all of the following EXCEPT:
a. OA
b. bursitis
c. RA
d. Perthes' Disease - Correct Answer-b. bursitis
The skull consists of __________ and __________ bones.
a. facial, mandible
b. cranial, skull
c. cranial, hyoid
d. cranial, maxillofacial - Correct Answer-d. cranial, maxillofacial
__________ fractures do not protrude through adjacent tissue. Bone __________
be displaced.
a. Open, must
b. Compound, may or may not
c. Incomplete, must
d. Simple, may or may not - Correct Answer-d. Simple, may or may not
All of the following are examples of splints EXCEPT:
a. sugar tong
b. hairpin
c. Minerva
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d. abduction - Correct Answer-c. Minerva
__________ joints allow free movement. This joint type connection is called
___________ articulation.
a. Cartilaginous, amphiarthrosis
b. Synovial, diarthrosis
c. Fibrous, diarthrosis
d. Synovial, synarthrosis - Correct Answer-b. Synovial, diarthrosis
All of the following are examples of orthopedic hemostatic agents EXCEPT:
a. thrombin
b. ethibond
c. bone wax
d. gelfoam - Correct Answer-b. ethibond
When a section of spongy bone is scooped out with a curved gouge, it is called
a(n) __________ graft.
a. cortical
b. homogenous
c. cancellous
d. autogenous - Correct Answer-c. cancellous
The Bristow procedure requires __________.
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