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Ortho Certification Exam – Final Questions and Correct Answers (2025 Edition), Exams of Medicine

Kent State University (KSU) - East Liverpool CampusMedicine

Ortho certification Exam Final Questions and Correct Answers 2025 This document provides the final set of updated questions and correct answers for the 2025 Ortho Certification Exam. It includes essential topics such as musculoskeletal assessments, orthopedic conditions, fracture and joint care, surgical procedures, and rehabilitation nursing. The questions reflect the latest exam standards and are ideal for last-minute review or focused study before the exam

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Ortho certification Exam Final Questions and Correct Answers 2025
1. What is a major difference between osteo and rheumatoid arthritis: Os- teoarthritis
is local versus systemic
2. Which test is used for diagnosing osteoarthritis: X-rays
3. Which describes joint crepitation: Grating sound
4. What is a presenting symptom of hip osteoarthritis: Groin pain
5. What is a Herberdens node: Osteophyte formation
6. Which of the following is often found in degenerative disc disease: A normal physical
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7. Mrs. Rockwood is having more and more problems with her osteoarthritis her right
shoulder and back have been really bothering her she enjoys house- keeping and takes
pride in her clean house and is having difficulty getting it accomplished what would you
suggest: Space the cleaning out throughout the week cleaning one room Per day
8. Mrs. Rockford is prescribed physical and occupational therapy is to help with her
pain. What information should the nurse include in teaching?: Take oral pain medication
45 minutes before your therapy session
9. What is a management goal of osteoarthritis: Maintain joint function and mobility
10. What is an advantage of NSAIDS WITH COX2 selectivity: Les G.I. toxicity
11. Mrs. Myers a 57-year-old factory worker comes to the clinic complaining of right
shoulder pain for two days. Denies trauma. Start of the day after she cleaned the kitchen
cabinets. I sees her left hand to come her hair because of her pain. More bothersome at
night and has had to sleep in a recliner for comfort. She's on Synthroid and has been on
estrogen replacement for five years. She is prescribed NSAIDS what shows
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Ortho certification Exam Final Questions and Correct Answers 2025

  1. What is a major difference between osteo and rheumatoid arthritis: Os- teoarthritis is local versus systemic
  2. Which test is used for diagnosing osteoarthritis: X-rays
  3. Which describes joint crepitation: Grating sound
  4. What is a presenting symptom of hip osteoarthritis: Groin pain
  5. What is a Herberdens node: Osteophyte formation
  6. Which of the following is often found in degenerative disc disease: A normal physical exam
  7. Mrs. Rockwood is having more and more problems with her osteoarthritis her right shoulder and back have been really bothering her she enjoys house- keeping and takes pride in her clean house and is having difficulty getting it accomplished what would you suggest: Space the cleaning out throughout the week cleaning one room Per day
  8. Mrs. Rockford is prescribed physical and occupational therapy is to help with her pain. What information should the nurse include in teaching?: Take oral pain medication 45 minutes before your therapy session
  9. What is a management goal of osteoarthritis: Maintain joint function and mobility
  10. What is an advantage of NSAIDS WITH COX2 selectivity: Les G.I. toxicity
  11. Mrs. Myers a 57-year-old factory worker comes to the clinic complaining of right shoulder pain for two days. Denies trauma. Start of the day after she cleaned the kitchen cabinets. I sees her left hand to come her hair because of her pain. More bothersome at night and has had to sleep in a recliner for comfort. She's on Synthroid and has been on estrogen replacement for five years. She is prescribed NSAIDS what shows

2 / understanding: I should take it with food

  1. An MRI is ordered what should be included in pretest teaching: Remove all jewelry
  2. An MRI shows osteoarthritis and right shoulder what might be expected method of treatment: Heat or ice
  3. If surgery becomes an indication for a shoulder what would be a treatment goal: Improvement of function
  4. What is a surgical procedure for shoulder arthritis: Hemi arthroplasty
  5. What is a consideration of a complication of Osteoarthritis: Loss of joint function
  6. Mr. Baldwin has severe left shoulder arthritis related to repetitive heavy lifting at work. He wants conservative treatment not surgery. What is a likely treatment option for Mr. Baldwin: Corticosteroid injections

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  1. Discharge teaching plan for a total left shoulder regarding future restric- tion: With nothing other than a glass with your affected hand
  2. If a patient feels they do not need to do exercises at home what is the best response: Exercises will help your arm become strong
  3. After a total left shoulder patient wants to know how she will perform her usual household duties what is the best intervention: Assist her and her family and the readjusting role expectations
  4. A diagnosis of herniated nucleus pulposus The etiology of this condition is likely from what: Degeneration of the disc
  5. What is now rarely used as a diagnostic for HNP since the availability of MRI: A myelogram
  6. After lumbar percutaneous discectomy and what must you do immediately postop: Logroll when turning

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  1. An important nursing intervention in the postop. For a lumbar percuta- neous discectomy: Perform frequent neurovascular checks
  2. Patient had two pain pills one hour ago and his IV pain medication ordered for breakthrough pain. The patient rates his pain seven out of 10 what else can be done: Give the IV pain medication
  3. The patient rings the call late for his pain medication exactly when it's due but does this most likely indicate: But his pain medicine is inadequate
  4. What should be included in discharge teaching for lumbar percutaneous discectomy: Proper body mechanics are essential in all activities
  5. Patient complains of numbness of the right lateral phi and top of the lower leg. He is unable to walk on his heels upon request which nerve root is likely affected: L
  6. L5 nerve root irritation is evidenced by: Sensory deficit in the lateral aspect of the thigh, anterior aspect of the lower leg, and the space between the great and second toes. Never deficit is noticed by week hip extensors difficulty with your walking we ankle inversion
  7. Sensory deficit in the medial forearm and diminished or absent and finger flexion would be what cervical level: C
  8. What is removed in a total knee replacement: The distal femur and proximal tibial bone
  9. A typical therapy of gold prior to discharge after a right total knee would be: Muscle strengthening
  10. To establish a diagnosis of osteoporosis a DEXA a scan may be completed how will this show osteoporosis: The bone density of the person will be compared to that of a healthy young adult and age matched adults
  11. Patient education regarding Actonel should include: After taking this med- ication you should remain in an upright position for at least 30 minutes

7 / loss fatigue muscle aching and stiffness joints most commonly affected our fingers and wrist knees and feet

  1. Bloodwork or labs that would likely be elevated during a rheumatoid arthritis flare up would include: An elevation in ESR
  2. A newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis is typically given a non-steroid old anti- inflammatory drug and methotrexate because: It will help maximize the control of inflammation
  3. One of the most common side effects of methotrexate occur in which body system: Gastrointestinal
  4. Name the deformity th: Boutonniere deformity's
  5. PIP joint: Proximal interphalngeal
  6. D IP joint: Distal interphalangeal joint
  7. Hyper extension of the PIP joint with flexion of the metacarpal phalangeal in D IP joints: Swans neck deformity
  8. A patient who is on Coumadin after total knee what should the nurse instruct the patient about urine: Report tea colored urine immediately
  9. A 12 - year-old patient experiences and Epicondyler fracture and a long arm cast as applied if the cast needs to be splint after application to allow for tissue swelling the nurse will buy them of the cast by splitting it in which direction: Medially and laterally
  10. The use of bucks traction is used to: Minimize muscle spasms
  11. A patient is placed in the CPM machine following a total knee arthroplasty he nurse recognizes one benefit of the CPM is decreased: Joint hemarthrosis
  12. Following application of a short arm cast the nurse will assess sensation and motion in the patient's digits numbness and tingling in between the thumb and index finger may

8 / indicate compromise of which nerve: Radial

  1. A patient receiving Mitroxantrone for treatment of an exacerbation of MS the nurse should be aware: The patient's urine may turn a blue green color and Initially
  2. A patient is diagnosed with osteoio osteoma The nurses able to confirm this is a benign tumor that: Causes night paying that can be relieved by aspirin
  3. The most common primary malignant bone tumor and children is the: Os- teosarcoma greater occurrence in boys than girls
  4. A patient is diagnosed with slipped capital femoral epiphysis. The nurse recognizes this patient is at high-risk the normal of developing: Degenerative arthritis
  5. Patient teaching for Osgood Schlatter disease: Symptoms will stop by the end of skeletal growth this disease is self-limiting condition of preadolescence the symptoms stop when the epiphyses is fully ossified

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  1. Cryotherapy decreases blood flow to the vessels by causing them to contract what should be known about cryotherapy: Cold compress should be maintained for 30 minutes on and 15 minutes off for 72 hours
  2. What should be taught regarding ace bandage wrapping: Should be applied tight enough to promote venous return
  3. When I'm tanning a history during evaluation of a sports injury why is the mechanism of injury important: Helps determine diagnostic imaging that would be helpful
  4. All strains are these type of injuries: Ligament injuries

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  1. There are three grades of muscle injury what would a grade to muscle injury involved: 10 to 50% of muscle fibers are toward palpation reveals a defect of the muscle
  2. There are three grades of injury describing a ligament what would describe a grade one ligament injury: 0 to 20% of ligament fibers are torn
  3. What is a common characteristic of a stress fracture: Full and painless range of motion at the adjacent joints
  4. The apprehension test is used to test instability of what body part: The shoulder
  5. Lesions may be detected on x-ray of the shoulder following dislocation what is the name of the lesion on the glenoid rim: Bankhart
  6. Where is a hill Sachs lesion: Humeral head
  7. Where is a Bennett's lesion found: In an avulsion fracture of the hand
  8. Neurovascular assessment is important phone shoulder dislocation which artery may become impinged as a result of shoulder dislocation: Radial
  9. Dequervein tenosynovitis is caused by repetitive and forceful exertions of the wrist and hand which of the following test is positive in dequerveins tenosynovitis: Finkelstein's test. Owner deviation of hand and thumb flexed against Palm
  10. Gate used to comedy pain on weight-bearing: Antalgic
  11. PRICEMM:
  12. Rotator cuff repair will exhibit pain and which position: Abduction and external rotation
  13. Diagnosis of right full fitness rotator cuff pair what symptoms would be associated with this injury: Dropping on to waste upon passive abduction
  14. After rotator cuff repair for rehabilitation after the surgery is: 6 to 12 months
  15. Sensitive to touch stiffness at The elbow function is normal what is likely the problem