PMHNP Board 2024 Review | 100% Correct Answers | Verified 2024 Version

parasympathetic nervous system does what? - maintains and restores energy; inhibits or decreases activity of organs peripheral nervous system connects to what? - PNS to CNS to receptors, muscles, and glands NIHSS Stroke Scale: What is range and meaning of score? - 15-item neurological examination used to evaluate the effect of acute cerebral infarction on the levels of consciousness, language, neglect, visualfield loss, extraocular movement, motor strength, ataxia, dysarthria, and sensory loss. Very Severe: 25. Severe: 15 - 24. Mild to Moderately Severe: 5 - 14. Mild: 1 - 5 What is responsible for the fight or flight response - sympathetic nervous system (part of ANS) Course of cardioembolic stroke - sudden onset of maximal neuro deficits; quick recovery after reperfusion What is a lumbar puncture used for? - diagnose infectious, auntoimmune issues, and paraneoplastic syndromes What are arterial gases taken for? - used to measure concentrations of atmospheric gases when patients are in respiratory distress What is a non-contrast head CT scan used for? - helpful in excluding the diagnosis of normal pressure hydrocephalusWhat is the presentation of normal pressure hydrocephalus? - abnormal (magnetic) gait, urinary incontinence, cognitive decline What is an EEG used for? - to measure brain wave activity for people with sleep or suspected seizure disorders What is the presentation of Steven Johnson Syndrome? - it is a specific, life-threatening drug rash characterized by blisters giving way to dermis and hives on the lining of any mucous membrane What lab evidence supports dx of Eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS)? - DRESS is a drug induced rash and lab work shows elevated eosinophils and liver enzymes, renal insufficiency, and positive cardiac enzymes S/S of mixed delirium - cyclical manifestation of psychomotor retardation and agitation with disturbance in consciousness; risk factors include infection, fever S/S of hyperactive delirium - psychomotor agitation, restlessness, and hypervigilence S/S of hypoactive delirium - psychomotor retardation and apathy S/S and cause of vascular dementia -