Exam 29: Spinal Cord Injury

Which statement made by a male patient with a SCI could be assessed as a positive adaptation to the nursing diagnosis of "Sexual dysfunction,related to altered body function?"

The nurse assures a despondent young female patient with a SCI who is at risk for sexual dysfunction that although her lesion is at C5,she can still have: (Select all that apply.)

The nurse notes that no urinary output has occurred in a patient who underwent a laminectomy 2 hours earlier.The nurse should:

The family of a patient with a SCI is concerned with the lack of bowel function 2 days after the injury.The nurse's best response would be:

When the nurse recognizes autonomic dysreflexia in the patient with a SCI,the immediate intervention should be to:

The family of a patient with an SCI at C4 asks whether the patient will ever be free of the ventilator.The nurse's best response is:

To avoid stimulating a muscle spasm,the nurse will move the impaired legs of a patient with a SCI by:

Which intervention by the nurse would be effective in the prevention of autonomic dysreflexia in the patient with a SCI?

Before taking a magnetic resonance image (MRI),the patient asks why metal objects and the MRI machine are such concerns.The nurse's best explanation is that the MRI machine will: (Select all that apply.)

When the patient with a SCI inquires what the physician means by a cone-down,the nurse explains that:

The nurse explains that the spinal cord extends from the brainstem to the level of which vertebra?

On admission to the emergency department,the patient with a C5 compression fracture can move only his head and has flaccid paralysis of all extremities.The distraught family asks if the paralysis is permanent.The nurse's best response would be:

The nurse explains to the family of a patient with quadriplegia that intravenous (IV)drugs are the most effective method of administration,because drugs injected intramuscularly (IM)are:

During a neurologic assessment,the nurse asks the patient to dorsiflex the foot against the resistance of the nurse's hand.The inability to perform this action confirms that cord damage has occurred at: