ADN 214 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026

ADN 214 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026 frontal lobe - Answers conscious/unconscious, behavior, personality, judgement, abstract thought, motor function broca's area - Answers speech parietal lobe - Answers sensory/awareness of body parts, body image, written language. pain signals temoral lobe - Answers hearing, taste, smell occipital lobe - Answers vision and memory, confusion is first sign of damage brain stem (mid brain, medulla oblongata, pons) - Answers respiratory center, cardiac function, reflex center for BP, HR, coughing, vomiting, swallowing, sneezing limbic system - Answers hypothalamus, homeostasis protection of the brain - Answers skull, cerebrospinal fluid, meninges, blood-brain barrier CNS - Answers brain and spinal cord PNS - Answers cranial and spinal nerves, autonomic nervous system Schwann cells - Answers protection microglia - Answers phagocytosis- eat dead cells/foreign bodies cycle of willis - Answers major vascular area, branches of internal carotid arteries neuro assessment - Answers 6 cardinal gazes : nerves 3,4,6 DTR, PERRLA, GCS, Romberg test: close eyes, feet together, arms out APVU: alert, verbal, pain, unresp headache, bladder bower function Glasgow Coma Scale - Answers LOC assessment: eye opening, verbal response, motor response neurotransmitters - Answers acetylcholine, norepinephrine, dopamine, endorphins Acetylcholine - Answers motor impulses, cholinergic, parasympathetic norepinephrine - Answers arousal, sleep, HR, BP, mood, activity, sympathetic dopamine - Answers behavior (attention, emotions) fine movement endorphins - Answers excitatory, pleasurable sensation, inhibits pain neuronal function - Answers motor impulse: efferent sensory impulses: afferent SAME: sensory afferent, motor efferent cranial nerve 1 - Answers olfactory- smell cranial nerve 2 - Answers optic- visual acuity cranial nerve 3 - Answers oculomotor- eye movement, pupil constriction, blinking cranial nerve 4 - Answers trochlear- voluntary eye movement (up and down) cranial nerve 5 - Answers trigeminal - facial sensation, facial expression cranial nerve 6 - Answers abducens- lateral movement of eyes (eye rolling) cranial nerve 7 - Answers facial- taste/saliva, facial expression cranial nerve 8 - Answers Vestibulocochlear- hearing and balance cranial nerve 9 - Answers glossopharyngeal - swallowing, taste, gag cranial nerve 10 - Answers vagus- parasympathetic; HR, digestion cranial nerve 11 - Answers accessory- larynx, pharynx, spinal, shoulder/neck region cranial nerve 12 - Answers hypoglossal - tongue nursing myths - Answers o The nurse is the best judge of a patients pain o If pain is ignored, it will go away o Patients shouldn't take any measures to relieve pain until its unbearable o Most complaints of pain are merely psychological (e.g., "it's all in your head"); only "real" pain manifests in obvious physical signs o Patients taking pain meds will become addicted to the drug o Patients with severe tissue damage will experience significant pain and those with lesser damage will feel less pain o Patients ask for pain medication when they need it types of pain - Answers acute, chronic, somatic, visceral, breakthrough, idiopathic, nociceptive, neuropathic, neurogenic acute pain - Answers result of tissue damage, surgery, or trauma; less than 6 months; often described as sharp and diminishes as healing occurs chronic pain - Answers can be time limited or last a lifetime; no useful purpose, is viewed as pathological associated with disease process- cancer pain or noncancer pain (ex: peripheral neuropathy, back pain, osteoarthritis); often described as dull, diffuse, aching; VS are normal, but may have weight loss/gain. somatic pain - Answers sharp/localized (cancer, osteoarthritis) visceral - Answers body cavity (chest, abdomen) breakthrough - Answers chronic pain, acute exacerbations idiopathic - Answers no known cause nociceptive - Answers physiologic pain d/t tissue injury; sharp, aching, throbbing neuropathic pain - Answers pathological pain d/t damage to peripheral or CNS neurogenic pain - Answers pathological disease of somatosensory system; diabetic neuropathy, phantom pain, burning/sharp pain pain process - Answers transduction, transmission, perception, modulation transduction pain - Answers injury- release of chemical mediators (prostaglandins, bradykinin,serotonin, histamine) that opens Na+ channels and acUvates acUon potenUal transmission pain p - Answers acUon potenUal afferent neurons to spinal cord to brain (thalamus and midbrain) o Afferent Fibers: A Delta- quick, subside quickly (stabbing, sharp) o C Fibers: slow, persistent, last longer (burning, aching) perception pain p - Answers stimuli from thalamus to frontal, parietal, and limbic system modulation pain p - Answers release of endorphins/serotonin, inhibit transmission of pain nutrition importance CA pt - Answers potentially maximizes effect of therapy, alleviates side effects, and improves quality of life limit nutritions - Answers red meats, processed foods, fats, salt, sugar, ETOH, raw foods high-calorie, high-protein diet - Answers helps maintain weight and muscle mass, supports healing, provides energy during treatment antioxidant-rich diet - Answers includes fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, which help protect cells from damage caused by free radicals high-fiber diet - Answers prevents colorectal cancer mechanical soft diet - Answers consists of easy to swallow foods which can be helpful for dysphagia due to throat or mouth cancer or treatment side effects (stomatitis)