The nurse is testing the patient’s eyes for accommodation by holding a finger in front of the eyes and asking the patient to look at a point over the nurse’s shoulder then look at the finger. The nurse documents which bilateral response as normal?

Pupils constrict and eyes converge. A normal response to changing the gaze to a close-up object is for the pupils to constrict and the eyes to converge on the close-up object. Pupil dilation and converging/diverging of the eyes or pupil constriction and diverging of the eyes are abnormal responses to the test.

The nurse is testing the patient’s eyes for accommodation b...

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