Chapter 24 Neurologic System Jarvis Physical Examination and Health Assessment, 9th Edition
Chapter 24: Neurologic System Jarvis: Physical Examination and Health As
sessment, 9th Edition
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1. What are the two parts of the nervous system? Central and peripheral
2. A patient's wife tells the nurse that she is concerned Frontal
because she has noticed a change in her husband's
personality and ability to understand. He also cries
very easily and becomes angry.
What part of the cerebral lobe is responsible for these
behaviors?
3. Which statement concerning the areas of the brain is The hypothalamus con-
true? trols body temperature
and regulates sleep.
4. What area of the nervous system is responsible for Spinal cord
mediating reflexes?
5. While gathering equipment after an injection, a nurse Lateral spinothalamic tract,
accidentally received a prick from an thalamus, and sensory
improperly capped needle. To interpret this sensation, cortex
which areas of the nervous system must
be intact?
6. A patient with a lack of oxygen to the heart will have The sensory cortex does
pain in the chest and possibly in the shoulder, arms, not have the ability to lo-
or jaw. Which statement would the nurse know t is the calize pain in the heart;
best explanation for consequently, the pain is
why this occurs? felt elsewhere.
7. What controls humans' ability to perform very skilled Corticospinal tract
movements such as writing?
8. Cerebellum
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, Chapter 24 Neurologic System Jarvis Physical Examination and Health Assessment, 9th Edition
Chapter 24: Neurologic System Jarvis: Physical Examination and Health As
sessment, 9th Edition
Study online at https://quizlet.com/_h9bkyh
A patient s reports being very unsteady and having
difficulty in maintaining balance. Which
area of the brain most concerns the nurse?
9. Which statement about the peripheral nervous system The peripheral nerves car-
is correct? ry input to the central ner-
vous system by afferent
fibers
and away from the central
nervous system by efferent
fibers.
10. A patient has a severed spinal nerve as a result of The adjacent spinal nerves
trauma. Which statement is true in this situation? will continue to carry most
of the sensations for the
dermatome served by the
severed nerve
11. A patient has a head injury resulting from trauma and Reflexes will be normal.
is unconscious. There are no other injuries. During the
assessment what would the nurse expect to find when
testing the patient's deep tendon reflexes?
12. A mother of a 1-month-old infant asks the nurse why Myelin is needed to con-
it takes so long for infants to learn to roll over. What is duct the impulses, and the
the reason for this? neurons of a newborn are
not
yet myelinated.
13. During an assessment of an 80-year-old patient, the Normal changes attribut-
nurse notices the following: an inability to identify vi- able to aging
brations at the ankle and to identify the position of
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Chapter 24: Neurologic System Jarvis: Physical Examination and Health As
sessment, 9th Edition
Study online at https://quizlet.com/_h9bkyh
1. What are the two parts of the nervous system? Central and peripheral
2. A patient's wife tells the nurse that she is concerned Frontal
because she has noticed a change in her husband's
personality and ability to understand. He also cries
very easily and becomes angry.
What part of the cerebral lobe is responsible for these
behaviors?
3. Which statement concerning the areas of the brain is The hypothalamus con-
true? trols body temperature
and regulates sleep.
4. What area of the nervous system is responsible for Spinal cord
mediating reflexes?
5. While gathering equipment after an injection, a nurse Lateral spinothalamic tract,
accidentally received a prick from an thalamus, and sensory
improperly capped needle. To interpret this sensation, cortex
which areas of the nervous system must
be intact?
6. A patient with a lack of oxygen to the heart will have The sensory cortex does
pain in the chest and possibly in the shoulder, arms, not have the ability to lo-
or jaw. Which statement would the nurse know t is the calize pain in the heart;
best explanation for consequently, the pain is
why this occurs? felt elsewhere.
7. What controls humans' ability to perform very skilled Corticospinal tract
movements such as writing?
8. Cerebellum
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Chapter 24: Neurologic System Jarvis: Physical Examination and Health As
sessment, 9th Edition
Study online at https://quizlet.com/_h9bkyh
A patient s reports being very unsteady and having
difficulty in maintaining balance. Which
area of the brain most concerns the nurse?
9. Which statement about the peripheral nervous system The peripheral nerves car-
is correct? ry input to the central ner-
vous system by afferent
fibers
and away from the central
nervous system by efferent
fibers.
10. A patient has a severed spinal nerve as a result of The adjacent spinal nerves
trauma. Which statement is true in this situation? will continue to carry most
of the sensations for the
dermatome served by the
severed nerve
11. A patient has a head injury resulting from trauma and Reflexes will be normal.
is unconscious. There are no other injuries. During the
assessment what would the nurse expect to find when
testing the patient's deep tendon reflexes?
12. A mother of a 1-month-old infant asks the nurse why Myelin is needed to con-
it takes so long for infants to learn to roll over. What is duct the impulses, and the
the reason for this? neurons of a newborn are
not
yet myelinated.
13. During an assessment of an 80-year-old patient, the Normal changes attribut-
nurse notices the following: an inability to identify vi- able to aging
brations at the ankle and to identify the position of
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