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Nursing 205 Session 1 | 460 Questions | With
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#1 focus for patient care during a seizure Correct Answers
Maintain an airway

#1 goal and diagnostic for patients with suspected CVA Correct
Answers CT - you do it 10 times a shift moron

#1 priority of status epilepticus Correct Answers stop the
seizure

A left brain stroke affects which side of the body? Correct
Answers right side

A right brain stroke affects which side of the body? Correct
Answers left side

Absence seizures: Correct Answers Short episodes of staring
and loss of awareness

Acoustic Neuromas Correct Answers benign tumor of the
eighth cranial nerve, the cranial nerve most responsible for
hearing and balance.

Acute optic neuritis Correct Answers Painful unilateral visual
loss associated with MS

Age-related changes - ANS and SNS function Correct Answers
overall slowing in both systems

,Age-related changes - Brain weight Correct Answers decreases

Age-related changes - deep tendon reflexes Correct Answers
slowing

Age-related changes - myelin sheath Correct Answers
Decreased, resulting in decreased nerve conduction in some
nerve

Age-related changes - neurons Correct Answers progressive
decrease

Agnosia Correct Answers The inability to interpret or
recognize objects seen through the special senses.
-The patient may see a pencil but not know what is is called or
what to do with it

Akinesia Correct Answers inability to initiate movement
-related to parkinsons in this case

Angiomas Correct Answers Tumors consisting principally of
abnormal blood vessels either found in the brain or on its surface

Angiomas diagnosis Correct Answers Occasionally, the
diagnosis is suggested by the presence of another angioma
somewhere in the head or by a bruit (an abnormal sound) that is
audible over the skull.

Another name for hemorrhagic stroke Correct Answers
Ruptured cerebral aneurysm

,Another name for tonic-clonic seizures Correct Answers grand
mal seizures

Anoxia Correct Answers lack of oxygen
Posturing

Aphasia Correct Answers Deficiency in language function

Aphasia suggests which sided stroke? Correct Answers Left

Approximately _____ of hemorrhagic strokes and is caused
chiefly by uncontrolled hypertension Correct Answers 80%

Arboviral Encephalitis Correct Answers Encephalitis caused by
arthropod-borne viruses
-mosquitos most common in US
-West nile virus
-humans are the secondary hots
-birds are primary

Are Clonic seizures generalized or partial Correct Answers
Generalized

Are meningiomas more common in men or women Correct
Answers women; twice as much

Are meningiomas typically malignant or benign? Correct
Answers Typically benign and slow growing

, Are pituitary adenomas benign or malignant? Correct Answers
majority of these tumors are benign but, in rare cases, may be
malignant.

Are Pituitary Adenomas more common in men or women
Correct Answers women

Are tonic seizures generalized or partial? Correct Answers
Generalized

Assessing strength is graded 0 to _____ Correct Answers 5

Assessing the cranial nerves - dysphagia Correct Answers CN
9, 10, 11

Assessing the cranial nerves - Eye movement Correct Answers
CN 3, 4, 6

Assessment goal for someone that comes in with a history of
epilepsy/ seizures Correct Answers Get detailed info about
prodrome and aura phase. Possible factors that increase the risk
(alcohol and drugs). If there are any know triggers (flashing
lights). and the type of seizures they have experienced in the
past

Atonic seizure characteristics include Correct Answers patient
deflates like a balloon.
-relaxed muscles

Atonic seizures Correct Answers Sudden loss of muscle tone,
resulting in falls or a "drop" to the ground, with rapid recovery

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