Health Assessment_ Neurological Assessment answer keys
What is the peripheral nervous system? 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? relays information for the cerebral cortex
What does the brain stem do? controls breathing, heart rate, function
The nurse observes that a patient's gait is C. Cerebellum
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
What is the cerebral cortex involved in? thoughts, memory, reasoning, sensation and voluntary
movement
What are the four lobes of the cerebrum? frontal, parietal, occipital and temporal
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Where is Wernicke's area and what does it temporal lobe, language comprehension
do?
Where is Broca's area and what does it do? frontal lobe, motor speech
Damage to the cerebral cortex occurs when deprived of blood supply, such as when a cerebral artery
highly specialized neurologic cells are becomes occluded
what? What is an example?
What occurs in Wernicke's aphasia? trouble associating words to situations
What occurs in Broca's aphasia? know what they want to say but they cant get the words out
On most people speech is located on the left
_______ side of the brain
What is global aphasia? when both wernicke's and broca's aphasia occurs
Left cerebral cortex receives sensory right
information from and controls motor
function to __________ side of the body
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The nurse is performing a mental status C. Cerebral function
examination on a patient diagnosed with
subdural hematoma. This test assesses which
of the following?
A. Cerebellar function
B. Intellectual function
C. Cerebral function
D. Sensory function
What are the four main parts of the reflexes, cranial nerves, spinal nerves, autonomic nervous
peripheral nervous system? system
What are reflexes? basic defense mechanisms of nervous system
What are the four types of reflexes? deep tendon, superficial, visceral, pathologic
The cranial nerves enter and exit what? the brain rather than the spinal cord
What are spinal nerves? 31 pairs of nerves that go from the spinal cord to the rest of
the body
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What is the peripheral nervous system? 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? relays information for the cerebral cortex
What does the brain stem do? controls breathing, heart rate, function
The nurse observes that a patient's gait is C. Cerebellum
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
What is the cerebral cortex involved in? thoughts, memory, reasoning, sensation and voluntary
movement
What are the four lobes of the cerebrum? frontal, parietal, occipital and temporal
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,Health Assessment_ Neurological Assessment answer keys
Where is Wernicke's area and what does it temporal lobe, language comprehension
do?
Where is Broca's area and what does it do? frontal lobe, motor speech
Damage to the cerebral cortex occurs when deprived of blood supply, such as when a cerebral artery
highly specialized neurologic cells are becomes occluded
what? What is an example?
What occurs in Wernicke's aphasia? trouble associating words to situations
What occurs in Broca's aphasia? know what they want to say but they cant get the words out
On most people speech is located on the left
_______ side of the brain
What is global aphasia? when both wernicke's and broca's aphasia occurs
Left cerebral cortex receives sensory right
information from and controls motor
function to __________ side of the body
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, Health Assessment_ Neurological Assessment answer keys
The nurse is performing a mental status C. Cerebral function
examination on a patient diagnosed with
subdural hematoma. This test assesses which
of the following?
A. Cerebellar function
B. Intellectual function
C. Cerebral function
D. Sensory function
What are the four main parts of the reflexes, cranial nerves, spinal nerves, autonomic nervous
peripheral nervous system? system
What are reflexes? basic defense mechanisms of nervous system
What are the four types of reflexes? deep tendon, superficial, visceral, pathologic
The cranial nerves enter and exit what? the brain rather than the spinal cord
What are spinal nerves? 31 pairs of nerves that go from the spinal cord to the rest of
the body
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