NUR 611 EXAM 2
2025 UPDATE : NUR 611 Exam 2
ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
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What makes up the autonomic nervous system? - Answer - Sympathetic and
parasympathetic nervous system
What is the parasympathetic nervous system responsible for? - Answer - Conserving
energy and the body's resources
What is the sympathetic nervous system responsible for? - Answer - Catecholamine
release - Epinephrine
Mobilizing energy stores and decreasing release of insulin
Redistributing blood Flow - Increasing to muscles and lungs (flight) and decreasing to
GI/Integumentary
What are the classifications of primary brain injury? - Answer - Focal or diffuse
What are focal brain injuries? - Answer - Specific, grossly observable lesions that occur
in a precise location
What are examples of focal brain injuries? - Answer - Epidural hemorrhage and
subdural hemorrhage
What are examples of diffuse brain injuries? - Answer - Hypoxia, meningitis,
encephalitis, and damage to blood vessels
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What can happen with increased intracranial pressures? - Answer - Collateral
dysfunction such as Diabetes Insipidus
What are characteristics of autonomic hyperreflexia? - Answer - Paroxysmal
hypertension, pounding headache, blurred vision, sweating above level of lesion with
flushing of skin, nasal congestion, nausea, piloerection causes by pilomotor spasm, and
bradycardia.
What is the sequence of events leading to hyperreflexia induced bradycardia? - Answer
- Stimulation of the carotid sinus nerve to the sinoatrial nose
The intact autonomic nervous system reflexively responds with arteriolar spasm that
increases blood pressure
Baroreceptors in the cerebral vessels, carotid sinus, and aorta sense the hypertension and
stimulation the parasympathetic nervous system
The heart rate decreases, but the visceral and peripheral vessels do not dilate because
efferent impulses cannot pass through the cord
What are the onset of delirium and dementia? - Answer - Delirium - acute and common
during hospitalization
Dementia - usually insidious and can be acute in situations such as trauma or stroke
What conditions are associated with delirium? - Answer - UTI, thyroid disorders,
hypoxia, hypoglycemia, toxicity, fluid-electrolyte imbalance, renal insufficiency, trauma,
multiple medications
What conditions are associated with dementia? - Answer - May have no other
conditions
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2025 UPDATE : NUR 611 Exam 2
ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
(A+ GRADED 100% VERIFIED) 2025
LATEST!!
What makes up the autonomic nervous system? - Answer - Sympathetic and
parasympathetic nervous system
What is the parasympathetic nervous system responsible for? - Answer - Conserving
energy and the body's resources
What is the sympathetic nervous system responsible for? - Answer - Catecholamine
release - Epinephrine
Mobilizing energy stores and decreasing release of insulin
Redistributing blood Flow - Increasing to muscles and lungs (flight) and decreasing to
GI/Integumentary
What are the classifications of primary brain injury? - Answer - Focal or diffuse
What are focal brain injuries? - Answer - Specific, grossly observable lesions that occur
in a precise location
What are examples of focal brain injuries? - Answer - Epidural hemorrhage and
subdural hemorrhage
What are examples of diffuse brain injuries? - Answer - Hypoxia, meningitis,
encephalitis, and damage to blood vessels
1 | Pa ge
, NUR 611 EXAM 2
What can happen with increased intracranial pressures? - Answer - Collateral
dysfunction such as Diabetes Insipidus
What are characteristics of autonomic hyperreflexia? - Answer - Paroxysmal
hypertension, pounding headache, blurred vision, sweating above level of lesion with
flushing of skin, nasal congestion, nausea, piloerection causes by pilomotor spasm, and
bradycardia.
What is the sequence of events leading to hyperreflexia induced bradycardia? - Answer
- Stimulation of the carotid sinus nerve to the sinoatrial nose
The intact autonomic nervous system reflexively responds with arteriolar spasm that
increases blood pressure
Baroreceptors in the cerebral vessels, carotid sinus, and aorta sense the hypertension and
stimulation the parasympathetic nervous system
The heart rate decreases, but the visceral and peripheral vessels do not dilate because
efferent impulses cannot pass through the cord
What are the onset of delirium and dementia? - Answer - Delirium - acute and common
during hospitalization
Dementia - usually insidious and can be acute in situations such as trauma or stroke
What conditions are associated with delirium? - Answer - UTI, thyroid disorders,
hypoxia, hypoglycemia, toxicity, fluid-electrolyte imbalance, renal insufficiency, trauma,
multiple medications
What conditions are associated with dementia? - Answer - May have no other
conditions
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