NCLEX-RN Questions: Epilepsy Exam
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True or False:
A patient who is experiencing a tonic-clonic seizure is experiencing a focal (partial) seizure.
✔️✔️False
A 7-year-old male patient is being evaluated for seizures. While in the child's room talking with
the child's parents, you notice that the child appears to be daydreaming. You time this event to be
10 seconds. After 10 seconds, the child appropriately responds and doesn't recall the event. This
is known as what type of seizure?
A. Focal Impaired Awareness (complex partial)
B. Atonic
C. Tonic-clonic
D. Absence ✔️✔️D. Absence
You're assessing your patient load for the patients who are at MOST risk for seizures. Select all
the patients below that are at risk:
A. 32-year-old with a blood glucose of 20 mg/dL
B. 63-year-old whose CT scan shows an ischemic stroke
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True or False:
A patient who is experiencing a tonic-clonic seizure is experiencing a focal (partial) seizure.
✔️✔️False
A 7-year-old male patient is being evaluated for seizures. While in the child's room talking with
the child's parents, you notice that the child appears to be daydreaming. You time this event to be
10 seconds. After 10 seconds, the child appropriately responds and doesn't recall the event. This
is known as what type of seizure?
A. Focal Impaired Awareness (complex partial)
B. Atonic
C. Tonic-clonic
D. Absence ✔️✔️D. Absence
You're assessing your patient load for the patients who are at MOST risk for seizures. Select all
the patients below that are at risk:
A. 32-year-old with a blood glucose of 20 mg/dL
B. 63-year-old whose CT scan shows an ischemic stroke
