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LATEST ALL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔The development of sensory and motor symptoms in multiple sclerosis is caused by:
- ✔✔immunologic and inflammatory demyelination of central nervous system neurons.
✔✔subdural hematomas: - ✔✔bleeding between the dura mater and the brain
✔✔Autonomic hyper reflexes is caused by: - ✔✔Stimulation of sensory/pain receptors
below the level of the spinal cord lesion
✔✔What usually causes encephalitis? - ✔✔viral infection
✔✔Most forms of focal brain injury are associated with increased: - ✔✔brain swelling
✔✔ALS is caused by: - ✔✔degeneration of lower and upper motor neurons
✔✔A patient has a spinal cord tumor that originates within the neural tissues. What type
of tumor is this called? - ✔✔Intramedullary
✔✔A sign associated with classic cerebral concussion is: - ✔✔loss of consciousness
, ✔✔Your patient has Guillain-Barré. During the health history you should ask about a
history of: - ✔✔Respiratory or gastrointestinal viral infections
✔✔cerebral thrombosis develops most often from: - ✔✔atherosclerosis and
inflammatory disease processes (arteritis)
✔✔Which intervertebral disks should the nurse asses first for germination? - ✔✔L4-S1
✔✔Your patient's forehead his the steering wheel during a motor vehicle accident.
Which part of the brain received the coup injury? - ✔✔Frontal
✔✔Your patient has a brief episode of neurological deficits that resolves within 12 hours
with a return to normal functioning. What diagnosis should you document on the chart? -
✔✔transient ischemic attack
✔✔What type of injury with the nurse prepare to care for when a patient has a diffuse
brain injury? - ✔✔Concussion
✔✔A patient has a recent spinal cord injury. Which term should the nurse use to
describe the loss of reflex function below the level of injury/lesion? - ✔✔spinal shock
✔✔Your patient with HIV has painful burning dyseathesias and paresthesias, especially
in the extremities. What condition will you document in the chart? - ✔✔HIV neuropathy
✔✔During your assessment of a patient with meningitis, you want to test for nuchal
rigidity. Which test will you implement? - ✔✔Kernig
✔✔During a myasthenic or cholinergic crisis, a patient is in danger of: - ✔✔Respiratory
arrest
✔✔Irritative syndromes involve: - ✔✔Compressive symptoms plus radicular pain and
paresthesias
✔✔A herniated disk allows the gelatinous material (the nucleus pulposus) to: -
✔✔extrude and compress the nerve root
✔✔An oncologist is discussing the process of metastasis. Which information should the
oncologist include? For metastasis to occur, tumor cells must be capable of: -
✔✔surviving in the bloodstream
✔✔A patient is preparing to receive adjuvant therapy for cancer. What should the nurse
tell the patient to reinforce teaching? This type of therapy: - ✔✔is given after cancer
surgery
LATEST ALL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔The development of sensory and motor symptoms in multiple sclerosis is caused by:
- ✔✔immunologic and inflammatory demyelination of central nervous system neurons.
✔✔subdural hematomas: - ✔✔bleeding between the dura mater and the brain
✔✔Autonomic hyper reflexes is caused by: - ✔✔Stimulation of sensory/pain receptors
below the level of the spinal cord lesion
✔✔What usually causes encephalitis? - ✔✔viral infection
✔✔Most forms of focal brain injury are associated with increased: - ✔✔brain swelling
✔✔ALS is caused by: - ✔✔degeneration of lower and upper motor neurons
✔✔A patient has a spinal cord tumor that originates within the neural tissues. What type
of tumor is this called? - ✔✔Intramedullary
✔✔A sign associated with classic cerebral concussion is: - ✔✔loss of consciousness
, ✔✔Your patient has Guillain-Barré. During the health history you should ask about a
history of: - ✔✔Respiratory or gastrointestinal viral infections
✔✔cerebral thrombosis develops most often from: - ✔✔atherosclerosis and
inflammatory disease processes (arteritis)
✔✔Which intervertebral disks should the nurse asses first for germination? - ✔✔L4-S1
✔✔Your patient's forehead his the steering wheel during a motor vehicle accident.
Which part of the brain received the coup injury? - ✔✔Frontal
✔✔Your patient has a brief episode of neurological deficits that resolves within 12 hours
with a return to normal functioning. What diagnosis should you document on the chart? -
✔✔transient ischemic attack
✔✔What type of injury with the nurse prepare to care for when a patient has a diffuse
brain injury? - ✔✔Concussion
✔✔A patient has a recent spinal cord injury. Which term should the nurse use to
describe the loss of reflex function below the level of injury/lesion? - ✔✔spinal shock
✔✔Your patient with HIV has painful burning dyseathesias and paresthesias, especially
in the extremities. What condition will you document in the chart? - ✔✔HIV neuropathy
✔✔During your assessment of a patient with meningitis, you want to test for nuchal
rigidity. Which test will you implement? - ✔✔Kernig
✔✔During a myasthenic or cholinergic crisis, a patient is in danger of: - ✔✔Respiratory
arrest
✔✔Irritative syndromes involve: - ✔✔Compressive symptoms plus radicular pain and
paresthesias
✔✔A herniated disk allows the gelatinous material (the nucleus pulposus) to: -
✔✔extrude and compress the nerve root
✔✔An oncologist is discussing the process of metastasis. Which information should the
oncologist include? For metastasis to occur, tumor cells must be capable of: -
✔✔surviving in the bloodstream
✔✔A patient is preparing to receive adjuvant therapy for cancer. What should the nurse
tell the patient to reinforce teaching? This type of therapy: - ✔✔is given after cancer
surgery
