Health Assessment: Neurological Assessment Questions & Answers
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Health Assessment: Neurological
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Health Assessment: Neurological
Which assessment finding would be the earliest and most sensitive indicator that there is an alteration in intracranial regulation?
A. Change in level of consciousness
B. Inability to focus visually
C. Loss of primitive reflexes
D. Unequal pupil size - ANSWERSA. Change in level of consciou...
Health Assessment: Neurological
Assessment Questions & Answers
Which assessment finding would be the earliest and most sensitive indicator that there
is an alteration in intracranial regulation?
A. Change in level of consciousness
B. Inability to focus visually
C. Loss of primitive reflexes
D. Unequal pupil size - ANSWERSA. Change in level of consciousness
What is the CNS comprised of? - ANSWERSthe brain and spinal cord
What is the peripheral nervous system? - ANSWERSall the nerve fibers (outside of the
brain and spinal cord) including 12 pairs of cranial nerves, 31 pairs of spinal nerves and
all of their branches
What does the thalamus do? - ANSWERSrelays information for the cerebral cortex
What does the brain stem do? - ANSWERScontrols breathing, heart rate, function
The nurse observes that a patient's gait is unsteady and assesses a positive Romberg
sign. Which area of the brain is most likely affected?
A. Hypothalamus
B. Medulla oblongata
C. Cerebellum
D. Left hemisphere - ANSWERSC. Cerebellum
What is the cerebral cortex involved in? - ANSWERSthoughts, memory, reasoning,
sensation and voluntary movement
What are the four lobes of the cerebrum? - ANSWERSfrontal, parietal, occipital and
temporal
Where is Wernicke's area and what does it do? - ANSWERStemporal lobe, language
comprehension
Where is Broca's area and what does it do? - ANSWERSfrontal lobe, motor speech
Damage to the cerebral cortex occurs when highly specialized neurologic cells are
what? What is an example? - ANSWERSdeprived of blood supply, such as when a
cerebral artery becomes occluded
, What occurs in Wernicke's aphasia? - ANSWERStrouble associating words to situations
What occurs in Broca's aphasia? - ANSWERSknow what they want to say but they cant
get the words out
On most people speech is located on the _______ side of the brain - ANSWERSleft
What is global aphasia? - ANSWERSwhen both wernicke's and broca's aphasia occurs
Left cerebral cortex receives sensory information from and controls motor function to
__________ side of the body - ANSWERSright
The nurse is performing a mental status examination on a patient diagnosed with
subdural hematoma. This test assesses which of the following?
A. Cerebellar function
B. Intellectual function
C. Cerebral function
D. Sensory function - ANSWERSC. Cerebral function
What are the four main parts of the peripheral nervous system? - ANSWERSreflexes,
cranial nerves, spinal nerves, autonomic nervous system
What are reflexes? - ANSWERSbasic defense mechanisms of nervous system
What are the four types of reflexes? - ANSWERSdeep tendon, superficial, visceral,
pathologic
The cranial nerves enter and exit what? - ANSWERSthe brain rather than the spinal
cord
What are spinal nerves? - ANSWERS31 pairs of nerves that go from the spinal cord to
the rest of the body
What is a dermatone? - ANSWERSCircumscribed skin area supplied mainly from one
spinal cord segment through particular nerve
What are the 3 parts of the autonomic nervous system? - ANSWERSsympathetic,
parasympathetic and enteric
What do autonomic fibers innervate? (3) - ANSWERSsmooth muscle, cardiac muscle
and glands
The autonomic system mediates _________________ activity -
ANSWERSunconscious/involuntary
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