NURS 663 ALL CORE MAIN ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔paper, reading, writing, copying - ✔✔What are the complex commands?
✔✔3, 1 - ✔✔How many points is take the paper, fold paper, and put on floor? The rest
of these commands are worth ___ point each.
✔✔Repetition, 1 - ✔✔What is this category called and how many points is it? Speaking
back a phrase: "No if, ands, or buts"
✔✔Registration, 3 - ✔✔Category name of repeating named prompts: Ball Flag Tree.
How many points?
✔✔Recall, 3 - ✔✔Category name of Registration recall: delayed verbal recall: Ball Flag
Tree. How many points?
✔✔Language, 2 - ✔✔Category of naming a pencil and a watch. How many points?
✔✔date, month, year, day of week, season - ✔✔Orientation to time for MMSE?
✔✔whose home? what room is this? what city? what county? what state? -
✔✔Orientation to place?
✔✔Donepezil, Galantamine, Rivastigmine - ✔✔What are the cholinesterase inhibitors?
✔✔NMDA receptor antagonist - ✔✔Memantine is a __________________________.
✔✔Aricept - ✔✔FDA approved for all stages of Alzheimers- mild, mod, severe
✔✔behavior, cognition. - ✔✔Aricept can't alter progression of disease, but can improve
_____________ &_____________.
, ✔✔acetylcholine - ✔✔Donepezil binds reversibly to acetylcholinesterase and inhibits
the hydrolysis of acetylcholinesterase, thus increasing the availability of
_______________ at the synapses, enhancing cholinergic transmission.
✔✔film coated - ✔✔Aricept comes as a disintegrating tablet or oral _____________
tablet.
✔✔5mg-10mg - ✔✔Mild to moderate dementia starting dose/day for Aricept
✔✔4,6, 10 - ✔✔Wait _______ to ________ weeks to increase Arciept's 5mg dose to
______mg.
✔✔10mg to 23mg - ✔✔dose range for Aricept moderate to severe dementia per day?
✔✔no - ✔✔Do you need to take Aricept with food?
✔✔nightly - ✔✔when to take the daily Aricept dose?
✔✔GI - ✔✔Most common side effects of Aricept?
✔✔N, V, diarrhea - ✔✔What are the common GI effects of Ariept?
✔✔Anorexia, fatigue, insomnia, muscle cramps - ✔✔with higher doses of Aricept, SE
may include
✔✔Bradycardia and heart block - ✔✔Warning of Aricept
✔✔Aricept - ✔✔Rhabdomyolysis is a rare AE of?
✔✔TBI, vascular, parkinsons - ✔✔Aricept is off label for Lewy, _____, _________
dementia, dementia associated w/ _____________.
✔✔mild, mod - ✔✔Galantamine and Rivastigmine are FDA approved for _________ to
_________ Alzheimers
✔✔natural, memory, thought - ✔✔Galantamine increases ______________ substances
that improve _____________ and _____________.
✔✔4mg BID - ✔✔Starting dose of Galantamine and how often?
✔✔4, 4 - ✔✔For Galantamine, increase by ___mg every ___ weeks
✔✔same - ✔✔Galantamine has the _________ side effects as Aricept
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔paper, reading, writing, copying - ✔✔What are the complex commands?
✔✔3, 1 - ✔✔How many points is take the paper, fold paper, and put on floor? The rest
of these commands are worth ___ point each.
✔✔Repetition, 1 - ✔✔What is this category called and how many points is it? Speaking
back a phrase: "No if, ands, or buts"
✔✔Registration, 3 - ✔✔Category name of repeating named prompts: Ball Flag Tree.
How many points?
✔✔Recall, 3 - ✔✔Category name of Registration recall: delayed verbal recall: Ball Flag
Tree. How many points?
✔✔Language, 2 - ✔✔Category of naming a pencil and a watch. How many points?
✔✔date, month, year, day of week, season - ✔✔Orientation to time for MMSE?
✔✔whose home? what room is this? what city? what county? what state? -
✔✔Orientation to place?
✔✔Donepezil, Galantamine, Rivastigmine - ✔✔What are the cholinesterase inhibitors?
✔✔NMDA receptor antagonist - ✔✔Memantine is a __________________________.
✔✔Aricept - ✔✔FDA approved for all stages of Alzheimers- mild, mod, severe
✔✔behavior, cognition. - ✔✔Aricept can't alter progression of disease, but can improve
_____________ &_____________.
, ✔✔acetylcholine - ✔✔Donepezil binds reversibly to acetylcholinesterase and inhibits
the hydrolysis of acetylcholinesterase, thus increasing the availability of
_______________ at the synapses, enhancing cholinergic transmission.
✔✔film coated - ✔✔Aricept comes as a disintegrating tablet or oral _____________
tablet.
✔✔5mg-10mg - ✔✔Mild to moderate dementia starting dose/day for Aricept
✔✔4,6, 10 - ✔✔Wait _______ to ________ weeks to increase Arciept's 5mg dose to
______mg.
✔✔10mg to 23mg - ✔✔dose range for Aricept moderate to severe dementia per day?
✔✔no - ✔✔Do you need to take Aricept with food?
✔✔nightly - ✔✔when to take the daily Aricept dose?
✔✔GI - ✔✔Most common side effects of Aricept?
✔✔N, V, diarrhea - ✔✔What are the common GI effects of Ariept?
✔✔Anorexia, fatigue, insomnia, muscle cramps - ✔✔with higher doses of Aricept, SE
may include
✔✔Bradycardia and heart block - ✔✔Warning of Aricept
✔✔Aricept - ✔✔Rhabdomyolysis is a rare AE of?
✔✔TBI, vascular, parkinsons - ✔✔Aricept is off label for Lewy, _____, _________
dementia, dementia associated w/ _____________.
✔✔mild, mod - ✔✔Galantamine and Rivastigmine are FDA approved for _________ to
_________ Alzheimers
✔✔natural, memory, thought - ✔✔Galantamine increases ______________ substances
that improve _____________ and _____________.
✔✔4mg BID - ✔✔Starting dose of Galantamine and how often?
✔✔4, 4 - ✔✔For Galantamine, increase by ___mg every ___ weeks
✔✔same - ✔✔Galantamine has the _________ side effects as Aricept
