Latest Update | Verified
/.cranial nerves mnemonic - Answer-Ooh, ooh, ooh to touch and feel
very good velvet. Such heaven!
/.cranial nerves order - Answer-olfactory, optic, oculomotor,
trochlear, trigeminal, abducens, facial, vestibulocochlear,
glossopharyngeal, vagus, accessory, hypoglossal
/.olfactory nerve - Answer-smell
/.optic nerve testing - Answer--visual activity: cover one eye, read
smallest line at 20 ft away ; 20/20 numerator = distance, denominator
= what line read
-Confrontation test (peripheral vision): pencil brought into field of
vision from 8 separate directions
/.oculomotor nerve, trochlear and abducens - Answer-III, IV, VI :
eyelid drooping, pupil size and equality and response to
light/accomidation, EOM
,/.trochlear nerve - Answer-eye movement
/.trigeminal nerve testing - Answer-V
-clinch teeth and palpate temporal and masseter muscles (motor)
-Pinprick close to midline of the face: manibular, maxillary, opthalmic
(sensory)
-corneal reflex
/.abducens nerve testing - Answer-located in pons, injury will deviate
eye medially
/.facial nerve testing - Answer--VII
Test facial expressions (close eyes tightly, smile, and show teeth)
-Identify sweet and sour tastes
/.vestibulochochlear (ACOUSTIC) nerve testing - Answer-VIII
-Hearing: rub 2 fingers equidistant from person's ear simultaneously
-Balance: balance test (one leg stance); caloric stimulation is a test
which uses differences in temp to diagnose ear nerve damage as a
cause of dizziness or vertigo
, /.glossopharyngeal nerve testing - Answer-IX
-Gag reflex; reserved for severely affected patients only
/.vagus nerve testing - Answer-X
-Say 'aah' watch movement of soft palate and pharynx; soft palate
should rise symmetrically and the uvula should remain in the mid-line
-check phonation
/.accessory nerve testing - Answer-XI
-resisted head and shoulder shrug (trapezius strenght)
resisted turning of head (sternocleidomastoid)
/.hypoglossal nerve testing - Answer-XII
-have person stick out tongue, look for atrophy, asymmetry, or
deviation from mid-line, L, T, D, N sounds
/.positioning for the prostate exam - Answer-rectal exam: knee chest;
lithotomy; left lateral with hips and knees flexed or standing with hips
flexed and upper body supported by exam table. If pt has a prostate
either standing or left lateral