. NUR 611 EXAM 2 .
2025 UPDATE : NUR 611 Exam
2
ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS
(A+ GRADED 100% VERIFIED)
2025
LATEST!!
What makes up the autonomic nervous system? - Answer -
Sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system
What is the parasympathetic nervous system responsible for? -
Answer - Conserving energy and the body's resources
What is the sympathetic nervous system responsible for? -
Answer - Catecholamine release - Epinephrine
Mobilizing energy stores and decreasing release of insulin
Redistributing blood Flow - Increasing to muscles and lungs
(flight) and decreasing to GI/Integumentary
What are the classifications of primary brain injury? - Answer -
Focal or diffuse
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What are focal brain injuries? - Answer - Specific, grossly
observable lesions that occur in a precise location
What are examples of focal brain injuries? - Answer - Epidural
hemorrhage and subdural hemorrhage
What are examples of diffuse brain injuries? - Answer -
Hypoxia, meningitis, encephalitis, and damage to blood vessels
What can happen with increased intracranial pressures? -
Answer - Collateral dysfunction such as Diabetes Insipidus
What are characteristics of autonomic hyperreflexia? - Answer -
Paroxysmal hypertension, pounding headache, blurred vision,
sweating above level of lesion with flushing of skin, nasal
congestion, nausea, piloerection causes by pilomotor spasm, and
bradycardia.
What is the sequence of events leading to hyperreflexia induced
bradycardia? - Answer - Stimulation of the carotid sinus nerve
to the sinoatrial nose
The intact autonomic nervous system reflexively responds with
arteriolar spasm that increases blood pressure
Baroreceptors in the cerebral vessels, carotid sinus, and aorta
sense the hypertension and stimulation the parasympathetic
nervous system
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The heart rate decreases, but the visceral and peripheral vessels
do not dilate because efferent impulses cannot pass through the
cord
What are the onset of delirium and dementia? - Answer -
Delirium - acute and common during hospitalization
Dementia - usually insidious and can be acute in situations such
as trauma or stroke
What conditions are associated with delirium? - Answer - UTI,
thyroid disorders, hypoxia, hypoglycemia, toxicity, fluid-
electrolyte imbalance, renal insufficiency, trauma, multiple
medications
What conditions are associated with dementia? - Answer - May
have no other conditions
What is the course of delirium? - Answer - Fluctuates and
remits with treatment
What is the course with dementia? - Answer - chronic slow
decline
What is the duration of delirium? - Answer - Hours to weeks
What is the duration of dementia? - Answer - Months to years
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2025 UPDATE : NUR 611 Exam
2
ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS
(A+ GRADED 100% VERIFIED)
2025
LATEST!!
What makes up the autonomic nervous system? - Answer -
Sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system
What is the parasympathetic nervous system responsible for? -
Answer - Conserving energy and the body's resources
What is the sympathetic nervous system responsible for? -
Answer - Catecholamine release - Epinephrine
Mobilizing energy stores and decreasing release of insulin
Redistributing blood Flow - Increasing to muscles and lungs
(flight) and decreasing to GI/Integumentary
What are the classifications of primary brain injury? - Answer -
Focal or diffuse
NUR 611 1 | Pa g e
, . NUR 611 EXAM 2 .
What are focal brain injuries? - Answer - Specific, grossly
observable lesions that occur in a precise location
What are examples of focal brain injuries? - Answer - Epidural
hemorrhage and subdural hemorrhage
What are examples of diffuse brain injuries? - Answer -
Hypoxia, meningitis, encephalitis, and damage to blood vessels
What can happen with increased intracranial pressures? -
Answer - Collateral dysfunction such as Diabetes Insipidus
What are characteristics of autonomic hyperreflexia? - Answer -
Paroxysmal hypertension, pounding headache, blurred vision,
sweating above level of lesion with flushing of skin, nasal
congestion, nausea, piloerection causes by pilomotor spasm, and
bradycardia.
What is the sequence of events leading to hyperreflexia induced
bradycardia? - Answer - Stimulation of the carotid sinus nerve
to the sinoatrial nose
The intact autonomic nervous system reflexively responds with
arteriolar spasm that increases blood pressure
Baroreceptors in the cerebral vessels, carotid sinus, and aorta
sense the hypertension and stimulation the parasympathetic
nervous system
NUR 611 2 | Pa g e
, . NUR 611 EXAM 2 .
The heart rate decreases, but the visceral and peripheral vessels
do not dilate because efferent impulses cannot pass through the
cord
What are the onset of delirium and dementia? - Answer -
Delirium - acute and common during hospitalization
Dementia - usually insidious and can be acute in situations such
as trauma or stroke
What conditions are associated with delirium? - Answer - UTI,
thyroid disorders, hypoxia, hypoglycemia, toxicity, fluid-
electrolyte imbalance, renal insufficiency, trauma, multiple
medications
What conditions are associated with dementia? - Answer - May
have no other conditions
What is the course of delirium? - Answer - Fluctuates and
remits with treatment
What is the course with dementia? - Answer - chronic slow
decline
What is the duration of delirium? - Answer - Hours to weeks
What is the duration of dementia? - Answer - Months to years
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