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The INITIAL purpose of stump wrapping is to: - ✔✔answeraid in venous return and reduce swelling
What is an important travel tip for people with COPD? - ✔✔answeravoid elevation above 4000 feet
unless in a pressurized cabin
What produces esophageal speech? - ✔✔answerburping to exert pressure and produce vibration
What is not included in a patient's occupational history? - ✔✔answerpast learning difficulties
Blindness of the nasal half of one eye and the temporal half of the other is known as: -
✔✔answerhomonymous hemianopsia
The terms perceived "susceptibility," "perceived threat," and "cues to action" are important concepts in
which nursing theory? - ✔✔answerhealth belief model
What bladder disorder will MOST likely be present in a patient with a CVA? - ✔✔answeruninhibited
neurogenic bladder
What is the legal definition of blindness? - ✔✔answervisual field restriction of up to 20 degrees or
central visual acuity in the better eye of no more than 20/200
Pursed lip breathing improves oxygenation because it: - ✔✔answerkeeps the alveoli open longer
What is a result of injury to the satiety center? - ✔✔answerovereating
Tardive dyskinesia, associated with the prolonged use of psychotropic drugs, may be assessed by
instructing the patient to: - ✔✔answergrimace, smile, frown, pucker, and chew
,With normal capillary perfusion, the color will return within: - ✔✔answer3 seconds
What is an appropriate nursing intervention for a pt. experiencing physiological and/or psychosocial
disturbances who has recently been transferred from one environment to another? -
✔✔answerencourage pt's verbalization of feelings
A patient who is unwilling to discuss his disability or to touch or look at his involved body parts may have
a nursing diagnosis of: - ✔✔answerbody image disturbance
What is a principle upon which learning depends? - ✔✔answerproviding for learner participation
Autonomous areflexic bladder dysfunction occurs when a lesion involves: - ✔✔answerboth the motor
and sensory components of the sacral segments of the spinal cord
Reflexogenic erections are possible when which spinal segments are perserved? - ✔✔answersacral
What is the Barthel Index? - ✔✔answerconsists of 10 items that measure a person's daily functioning
specifically the activities of daily living and mobility
What is a normal finding when assessing the skin of an elderly person? - ✔✔answerdecreased
subcutaneous fat
What is the premise of the Bobath neurodevelopmental technique? - ✔✔answerpt's learn the sensation
of movement, not the movement itself
Sleep deprivation can result in: - ✔✔answerpsychosis
A patient who presents with drooling or insufficiently chewed food has a problem in which phase of the
swallowing process? - ✔✔answeroral
, Upon discharge, what is the MOST important learning outcome for the patient with quadriplegia? -
✔✔answerdemonstrating knowledge and skills of self care
Which part of the brain control temperature? - ✔✔answerhypothalamus
In order to qualify for SSI, an individual must: - ✔✔answerdemonstrate financial need by income level
In the absence of an audiologist, which professionals would formally evaluate a pt's hearing? -
✔✔answerspeech therapist
The three point gate consists of: - ✔✔answermoving both crutches forward along with the affected leg
and followed by the unaffected leg
What is the most therapeutic position for distribution of body weight over bony prominences? -
✔✔answerprone
Proprioceptors mediate deep somatic sensations related primarily to: - ✔✔answerposition and
movement
The most common barrier to community re-entry that a patient with disabilities encounters is: -
✔✔answersocietal attitudes
What is a characteristic of the autonomous neurogenic bowel? - ✔✔answerflaccid anal sphincter
Which cranial nerves innervate the muscles necessary for eye movemnet? - ✔✔answeroculomotor,
abducens, and trochlear
The factor determining Social Security Disability Insurance eligibility is that the person: - ✔✔answercan
no longer engage in gainful activity