Exam 22: the Neurologic System

Matching The degree of consciousness in an otherwise unresponsive patient can be assessed by the use of progressive painful stimuli.Arrange the painful stimuli in the appropriate sequence of their application. -Step: 5

Matching The degree of consciousness in an otherwise unresponsive patient can be assessed by the use of progressive painful stimuli.Arrange the painful stimuli in the appropriate sequence of their application. -Step: 3

When feeding a patient with dysphagia with a left-sided hemiplegia,how should the nurse position the patient?

There are _______ cranial nerves that control the sensory and motor activities of the body.

The nurse interprets the physician's finding of a grade of 2/5 on the Achilles tendon to mean what has occurred?

Matching The degree of consciousness in an otherwise unresponsive patient can be assessed by the use of progressive painful stimuli.Arrange the painful stimuli in the appropriate sequence of their application. -Step: 4

Matching The degree of consciousness in an otherwise unresponsive patient can be assessed by the use of progressive painful stimuli.Arrange the painful stimuli in the appropriate sequence of their application. -Step: 2

When documenting pupillary response that is normal,the acceptable abbreviation is _______.

Bladder training begins with toileting the patient every:

The vital sign assessment of a person with a head injury was temperature (T),97° F;pulse (P),86;respiration (R),18;and blood pressure (BP),140/86 at 1:00.Which vital sign assessment made 30 minutes later is indicative of increasing intracranial pressure (ICP)?

The nurse performs a reflex test on a newly admitted adult patient.The nurse runs a tongue blade along the sole of the foot and the patient responds with the great toe bending backward (upward)and the smaller toes fanning outward.The nurse suspects the patient may be suffering from what? (Select all that apply.)

A neurologically damaged patient who cannot interpret communication directed to him is said to have ____________ aphasia.

The nurse is performing a neurologic assessment on a newly admitted head injury patient.Which sign does the nurse recognize as that most indicative of a brainstem injury?

The nurse requesting the patient to stick out the tongue and move it rapidly from side to side is assessing the __________ nerve.

The loss of neurons in the autonomic nervous system (ANS)of the older adult will cause the older adult to take longer to: (Select all that apply.)

The FOUR (Full Outline of UnResponsiveness)tool is based on the assessment of the status of the: (Select all that apply.)

The patient scheduled for a PET (positron emission tomography)scan of the brain asks if there is any special preparation for the test.The nurse correctly responds with which statements? (Select all that apply.)

The nurse is caring for the patient who has had an injury to the hypothalamus.Which intervention will the nurse be most concerned with implementing?

The nurse explains that a reflex is a simple automatic response requiring only:

The nurse notes that the Glasgow Coma Scale rating made on the patient 4 hours ago indicated a fully alert patient with a score of _____ points.