NURS 663 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025/2026

NURS 663 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025/2026 Tics - Answer - Repeated individually recognizable, intermittent movements or movement fragments that are almost always briefly suppressible Chronic Motor/Vocal Tic Disorder - Answer -Duration of Tics is greater than 12 months; does not include BOTH motor and verbal tics Provisional Motor/Vocal Tic Disorder - Answer -Duration of Tics is less than 12 months; Can include verbal or motor only or both types of tics before 18 years old - Answer -Maximum age a tic disorder can be diagnosed Boys - Answer -Tourette syndrome is more common in which gender? adolescence - Answer -Tourette syndrome has marked improvement in which developmental stage? 2 motor tics + 1 verbal tic - Answer -Combination of tics needed to meet requirements for Tourette Syndrome Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics (CBIT) and Habit Reversal Training (HRT) - Answer -Non-pharmacological treatment for Tic DisordersAlpha agonists (Guanfacine and Clonidine); anti- convulsants like Topiramate sometimes used as well - Answer -First-line pharmacological treatment for Tic Disorders atypical antipsychotics - Answer -Second-line pharmacological treatment for Tic Disorders Stereotypic Movement Disorder - Answer -Repetitive, seemingly driven (voluntary), and apparently purposeless motor behavior (i.e. hand shaking or waving, body rocking, head banging, self-biting, hitting own body) Developmental Coordination Disorder - Answer -a. The acquisition and execution of coordinated motor skills is substantially below that expected given the individual's chronological age and opportunity for skill learning and use b. S/S: Clumsiness (bumping into objects), Slow and inaccurate motor skills (catching, using scissors, handwriting, bike riding, sports etc) Intellectual Disability (ID) (Intellectual Developmental Disorder) - Answer -i. Deficits in intellectual functions like reasoning, problemsolving, planning, abstract thinking, judgement, academic learning, learning from experience; Must be confirmed by **both clinical assessment A