RNSG 1430 -SENSORY PERCEPTION questions with
verified answers
*** DRUG ALERT ***
CYCLOPLEGICS & MYDRIATICS Ans✓✓✓ MONITOR FOR SYSTEMIC TOXICITY
(TACHYCARDIA & CNS EFFECTS)
PTS WEAR DARK GLASSES TO REDUCE PHOTOPHOBIA.
AGE RELATED DIFFERENCES (INFANTS & CHILDREN) Ans✓✓✓ INFANTS &
CHILDREN -
- EYES PHYSICALLY DEVELOPED 8 MONTH IN UTERO, MAKING FETUS CAPABLE OF
OPENING EYES
- DEVELOPMENT OF GROSS VISUAL ABILITY TO RECOGNIZE OBJECTS
- PERFORM PURPOSEFUL EYE MOVEMENT
- COLOR RECOGNITION OCCURS DURING 1ST YR OF LIFE
- EARS ABILITY TO HEAR SOUNDS DEVELOP EARLY PART OF EMBRYONIC LIFE
- HEARING IS FULLY DEVELOPED AT BIRTH
- DETECT SMELL OF MOTHER'S MILK
- REFINED TASTE DESCRIMINATION LIMITED UNTIL INFANTS REACH APPROX. 3
MONTHS
- TOUCH WELL-DEVELOPED SENSE OF TOUCH
- ABLE TO RESPOND TO PERIPHERAL TACTILE STIMULATION AT BIRTH.
,DEVELOPS RAPIDLY FROM A TIGHT HAND GRASP AT 1 MONTH TO PINCER GRASP,
HOLDING CUP, & WALKING STEADILY BY AGE 1 YR.
AGE RELATED DIFFERENCES (OLDER ADULTS) Ans✓✓✓ - DECLINE IN SENSORY
FUNCTION OCCURS W/AGING.
- BELIEVED TO BE DUE IN PART TO PRESCRIBED TX FOR OTHER AGE-RELATED
CONDITIONS (E.G. MEDICATIONS USED FOR TX OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE).
AGE RELATED CHANGES -
VISION - BEGIN IN 4th DECADE - WHEN REDUCED ELASTICITY OF LENS OCCURS,
MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO FOCUS ON NEAR OBJECTS (PRESBYOPIA).
PRESBYCUSIS - AGE RELATED HEARING LOSS - CAUSED BY CHANGES IN INNER EAR
OR IN NERVE PATHWAYS FROM INNER EAR TO BRAIN. RESULTS IN ↓ ABILITY TO
HEAR & PROCESS SOUND, ALTHOUGH DEGREE OF HEARING LOSS IS VARIABLE.
↓ OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM ALONG W/↓ # OF NASAL CILIARY RECEPTORS
AVAILABLE TO ASSIST IN SENDING OLFACTORY SIGNALS TO BRAIN. ABILITY OF
SMELL ↓; SO IS ABILITY TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN VARIOUS SMELLS. ↓ SENSE
OF SMELL BEGINS AROUND 60 YRS OF AGE, W/↑ LOSS IN 70S & 80S.
REASON FOR ↓ IN SENSE OF TASTE IS UNKNOWN. IDEAS TO WHY ARE (1)
RELATED TO BOTH ↓ IN OLFACTION & POTENTIAL CHEWING PROBLEMS DUE TO
TOOTH LOSS. ↓ LEVELS IN HORMONES (E.G. TESTOSTERONE). ↓ IN # OF TASTE
CELLS LEADS TO ↓ IN SENSE OF TASTE. AD & PARKINSON DISEASE CAN LEAD TO
↓ IN DETECTION & RECOGNITION OF SMELLS.
, APHASIA Ans✓✓✓ NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER INFLUENCING PRODUCTION &
UNDERSTANDING OF LANGUAGE.
AQUEOUS HUMOR Ans✓✓✓ LIES BETWEEN CORNEA & LENS & BATHES &
NOURISHES LENS & ENDOTHELIUM OF CORNEA
CLEAR WATER FLUID COMPOSED OF ELECTROLYTES, GROWTH FACTOR, &
PROTEINS. BALANCED SECRETION IS IMPORTANT.
ASSESSMENT OF AUDITORY SYSTEM - OBJECTIVE DATA - Ans✓✓✓ - PHYSICAL
EXAM
- EXTERNAL EAR
- EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL & TYMPANUM
ASSESSMENT OF AUDITORY SYSTEM - SUBJECTIVE DATA - Ans✓✓✓ - PAST
HEALTH HX
-MEDICATIONS
- SURGERY OR OTHER TX
- FUNCTIONAL HEALTH PATTERNS (SEE TABLE 21.2 ATTACHED)
- HEALTH PERCEPTION - HEALTH MANAGEMENT PATTERN
- NUTRITIONA-METABOLIC PATTERN
- ELIMINATION PATTERN
verified answers
*** DRUG ALERT ***
CYCLOPLEGICS & MYDRIATICS Ans✓✓✓ MONITOR FOR SYSTEMIC TOXICITY
(TACHYCARDIA & CNS EFFECTS)
PTS WEAR DARK GLASSES TO REDUCE PHOTOPHOBIA.
AGE RELATED DIFFERENCES (INFANTS & CHILDREN) Ans✓✓✓ INFANTS &
CHILDREN -
- EYES PHYSICALLY DEVELOPED 8 MONTH IN UTERO, MAKING FETUS CAPABLE OF
OPENING EYES
- DEVELOPMENT OF GROSS VISUAL ABILITY TO RECOGNIZE OBJECTS
- PERFORM PURPOSEFUL EYE MOVEMENT
- COLOR RECOGNITION OCCURS DURING 1ST YR OF LIFE
- EARS ABILITY TO HEAR SOUNDS DEVELOP EARLY PART OF EMBRYONIC LIFE
- HEARING IS FULLY DEVELOPED AT BIRTH
- DETECT SMELL OF MOTHER'S MILK
- REFINED TASTE DESCRIMINATION LIMITED UNTIL INFANTS REACH APPROX. 3
MONTHS
- TOUCH WELL-DEVELOPED SENSE OF TOUCH
- ABLE TO RESPOND TO PERIPHERAL TACTILE STIMULATION AT BIRTH.
,DEVELOPS RAPIDLY FROM A TIGHT HAND GRASP AT 1 MONTH TO PINCER GRASP,
HOLDING CUP, & WALKING STEADILY BY AGE 1 YR.
AGE RELATED DIFFERENCES (OLDER ADULTS) Ans✓✓✓ - DECLINE IN SENSORY
FUNCTION OCCURS W/AGING.
- BELIEVED TO BE DUE IN PART TO PRESCRIBED TX FOR OTHER AGE-RELATED
CONDITIONS (E.G. MEDICATIONS USED FOR TX OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE).
AGE RELATED CHANGES -
VISION - BEGIN IN 4th DECADE - WHEN REDUCED ELASTICITY OF LENS OCCURS,
MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO FOCUS ON NEAR OBJECTS (PRESBYOPIA).
PRESBYCUSIS - AGE RELATED HEARING LOSS - CAUSED BY CHANGES IN INNER EAR
OR IN NERVE PATHWAYS FROM INNER EAR TO BRAIN. RESULTS IN ↓ ABILITY TO
HEAR & PROCESS SOUND, ALTHOUGH DEGREE OF HEARING LOSS IS VARIABLE.
↓ OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM ALONG W/↓ # OF NASAL CILIARY RECEPTORS
AVAILABLE TO ASSIST IN SENDING OLFACTORY SIGNALS TO BRAIN. ABILITY OF
SMELL ↓; SO IS ABILITY TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN VARIOUS SMELLS. ↓ SENSE
OF SMELL BEGINS AROUND 60 YRS OF AGE, W/↑ LOSS IN 70S & 80S.
REASON FOR ↓ IN SENSE OF TASTE IS UNKNOWN. IDEAS TO WHY ARE (1)
RELATED TO BOTH ↓ IN OLFACTION & POTENTIAL CHEWING PROBLEMS DUE TO
TOOTH LOSS. ↓ LEVELS IN HORMONES (E.G. TESTOSTERONE). ↓ IN # OF TASTE
CELLS LEADS TO ↓ IN SENSE OF TASTE. AD & PARKINSON DISEASE CAN LEAD TO
↓ IN DETECTION & RECOGNITION OF SMELLS.
, APHASIA Ans✓✓✓ NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER INFLUENCING PRODUCTION &
UNDERSTANDING OF LANGUAGE.
AQUEOUS HUMOR Ans✓✓✓ LIES BETWEEN CORNEA & LENS & BATHES &
NOURISHES LENS & ENDOTHELIUM OF CORNEA
CLEAR WATER FLUID COMPOSED OF ELECTROLYTES, GROWTH FACTOR, &
PROTEINS. BALANCED SECRETION IS IMPORTANT.
ASSESSMENT OF AUDITORY SYSTEM - OBJECTIVE DATA - Ans✓✓✓ - PHYSICAL
EXAM
- EXTERNAL EAR
- EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL & TYMPANUM
ASSESSMENT OF AUDITORY SYSTEM - SUBJECTIVE DATA - Ans✓✓✓ - PAST
HEALTH HX
-MEDICATIONS
- SURGERY OR OTHER TX
- FUNCTIONAL HEALTH PATTERNS (SEE TABLE 21.2 ATTACHED)
- HEALTH PERCEPTION - HEALTH MANAGEMENT PATTERN
- NUTRITIONA-METABOLIC PATTERN
- ELIMINATION PATTERN
