HEALTH ASSESSMENT- NEUROLOGICAL
ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS| GET IT CORRECT !!!
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 -
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A. Change in level of consciousness
What is the CNS comprised of? -
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the brain and spinal cord
What is the peripheral nervous system? -
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all 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? -
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relays information for the cerebral cortex
What does the brain stem do? -
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,controls 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 -
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C. Cerebellum
What is the cerebral cortex involved in? -
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thoughts, memory, reasoning, sensation and voluntary
movement
What are the four lobes of the cerebrum? -
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frontal, parietal, occipital and temporal
Where is Wernicke's area and what does it do? -
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temporal lobe, language comprehension
Where is Broca's area and what does it do? -
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frontal lobe, motor speech
, Damage to the cerebral cortex occurs when highly
specialized neurologic cells are what? What is an
example? -
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deprived of blood supply, such as when a cerebral artery
becomes occluded
What occurs in Wernicke's aphasia? -
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trouble associating words to situations
What occurs in Broca's aphasia? -
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know what they want to say but they cant get the words
out
On most people speech is located on the _______ side
of the brain -
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left
What is global aphasia? -
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when both wernicke's and broca's aphasia occurs
Left cerebral cortex receives sensory information from
and controls motor function to __________ side of the
body -
-Correct Answers
right
ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS| GET IT CORRECT !!!
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 -
-Correct Answers
A. Change in level of consciousness
What is the CNS comprised of? -
-Correct Answers
the brain and spinal cord
What is the peripheral nervous system? -
-Correct Answers
all 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? -
-Correct Answers
relays information for the cerebral cortex
What does the brain stem do? -
-Correct Answers
,controls 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 -
-Correct Answers
C. Cerebellum
What is the cerebral cortex involved in? -
-Correct Answers
thoughts, memory, reasoning, sensation and voluntary
movement
What are the four lobes of the cerebrum? -
-Correct Answers
frontal, parietal, occipital and temporal
Where is Wernicke's area and what does it do? -
-Correct Answers
temporal lobe, language comprehension
Where is Broca's area and what does it do? -
-Correct Answers
frontal lobe, motor speech
, Damage to the cerebral cortex occurs when highly
specialized neurologic cells are what? What is an
example? -
-Correct Answers
deprived of blood supply, such as when a cerebral artery
becomes occluded
What occurs in Wernicke's aphasia? -
-Correct Answers
trouble associating words to situations
What occurs in Broca's aphasia? -
-Correct Answers
know what they want to say but they cant get the words
out
On most people speech is located on the _______ side
of the brain -
-Correct Answers
left
What is global aphasia? -
-Correct Answers
when both wernicke's and broca's aphasia occurs
Left cerebral cortex receives sensory information from
and controls motor function to __________ side of the
body -
-Correct Answers
right
