NU560: Advanced Pathophysiology:
Exam 4 Neuro Q & As (Verified Answers)
2026
A nurse knows the onset of an acute
confusional state is: (duration) - Correct
Answers ✅Sudden
Seizures are initiated by:
1. hypersychronisization and bursts of action
potentials
2. closure of voltage-depdenent sodium
channels
3. long-lasting neuronal repoloarization
4. formation of neuritic plaques - Correct
Answers ✅1. hypersychronization and
bursts of action potentials
An unconscious person is admmited to the
hospital after a motorcycle accident. The
person experienced a brief loss of
consciousness at the scene followed by an
awake, lucid period of 1 hr. The nurse
, NU560: Advanced Pathophysiology:
Exam 4 Neuro Q & As (Verified Answers)
2026
suspects this individual has an; - Correct
Answers ✅extradural hematoma
greatest RF for stroke - Correct Answers
✅HTN
Arterial occlusion are caused by thrombi
formed in the arteries that supply the brain or
in intracranial vessels - Correct Answers
✅Thrombotic stroke
RF of thrombotic stroke - Correct Answers
✅atherosclerosis and inflammatory disease
process
Fragments break from a thrombus that is
formed outside the brain - Correct Answers
✅embolic stroke
Exam 4 Neuro Q & As (Verified Answers)
2026
A nurse knows the onset of an acute
confusional state is: (duration) - Correct
Answers ✅Sudden
Seizures are initiated by:
1. hypersychronisization and bursts of action
potentials
2. closure of voltage-depdenent sodium
channels
3. long-lasting neuronal repoloarization
4. formation of neuritic plaques - Correct
Answers ✅1. hypersychronization and
bursts of action potentials
An unconscious person is admmited to the
hospital after a motorcycle accident. The
person experienced a brief loss of
consciousness at the scene followed by an
awake, lucid period of 1 hr. The nurse
, NU560: Advanced Pathophysiology:
Exam 4 Neuro Q & As (Verified Answers)
2026
suspects this individual has an; - Correct
Answers ✅extradural hematoma
greatest RF for stroke - Correct Answers
✅HTN
Arterial occlusion are caused by thrombi
formed in the arteries that supply the brain or
in intracranial vessels - Correct Answers
✅Thrombotic stroke
RF of thrombotic stroke - Correct Answers
✅atherosclerosis and inflammatory disease
process
Fragments break from a thrombus that is
formed outside the brain - Correct Answers
✅embolic stroke