NURS 663 ALL ACTUAL FINALS ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔confusion, ataxia - ✔✔Wernickes: acute ____________, ophthalmoplegia (diff
seeing), and _________.
✔✔Amnesia, Confabulation - ✔✔Korsakoff's= ______________, _______________
(inventing false memories/made up stories), psychosis
✔✔thiamine, blood, support - ✔✔Treatment (Wernickes) Korsakoff's syndrome: Can be
partially reversed if caught early & treated with high doses of _____________.
Abstinence is essential to stop dementia progression. Period __________ tests.
__________ groups
✔✔25-30 - ✔✔MMSE questionably significant number range
✔✔20-25 - ✔✔MMSE mild cognitive impairment
✔✔0-10 - ✔✔MMSE severe cognitive impairment
✔✔Processing speed and executive function - ✔✔these 2 ARE NOT tested in the
MMSE
✔✔27, 30 - ✔✔Know scoring for SLUMS:
HS educated:
__________-_________= normal.
✔✔21, 26 - ✔✔_______-_________Mild neurocognitive disorder in SLUMS hs
educated
✔✔1, 20 - ✔✔_______-_________= dementia SLUMS hs educated
✔✔25, 30, 20, 24, 1, 19 - ✔✔Below HS education SLUMS:
, _______-_______ =normal.
_______-_______= Mild neurocognitive disorder _______-_______ = dementia
✔✔6 - ✔✔Grief-is lasting ___ months?
✔✔despaired, widowed - ✔✔RISK FACTORS for depression IN OLDER ADULTS:
INTEGRITY VS ___________, retired, loss of independence,
____________/WHITE/MALES.
✔✔TRAUMA - ✔✔RISK FACTORS IN PEDS for depression: SOCIOECONOMIC,
___________, NSSI (SELF HARM)
✔✔50, SSRI - ✔✔______% of patients with dementia have depression. Start with an
________, avoid anticholinergic antidepressants.
✔✔hypotension, P450, sedation, EPS - ✔✔If give antipsychotic for severe behavioral
problem, start very low, monitor for ___________, ___________ effects, ___________,
and _________.
✔✔Lewy - ✔✔Avoid giving antipsychotics to patients with ________ body dementia
✔✔Cardiovascular SE: CVA and MI - ✔✔Black box warning dementia antipsychotics:
✔✔cardiovascular - ✔✔Black box warning dementia TCA:
✔✔sleeping beauty syndrome, withdrawal, bed - ✔✔Kleine Levin syndrome is also
known as ____________________________. It is called that because wakeful periods
are usually marked by _____________ from social contacts and return to _________ at
first opportunity.
✔✔Kleine Levin, eating, aggression - ✔✔A patient has ____________ ________
syndrome if they display voracious _________, hypersexuality, and ___________.
✔✔several, 1, 10 - ✔✔Episodes of Kleine Levin syndrome usually last a few days up to
__________ weeks and appear _____ - _______times per year. Once the episode
subsides, normal sleep/wake cycles occur; until next episode.
✔✔10, 21 - ✔✔Kleine Levin syndrome: First attack occurs between ages of ____ and
____ years of age.
✔✔Idiopathic hypersomnia - ✔✔It may be associated with or without very long sleep
periods, after which the individual remains sleepy. Excessive sleepiness in which
patients do not have the ancillary symptoms associated with narcolepsy. The patient
readily falls asleep if given an opportunity to nap the following day. There is often
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔confusion, ataxia - ✔✔Wernickes: acute ____________, ophthalmoplegia (diff
seeing), and _________.
✔✔Amnesia, Confabulation - ✔✔Korsakoff's= ______________, _______________
(inventing false memories/made up stories), psychosis
✔✔thiamine, blood, support - ✔✔Treatment (Wernickes) Korsakoff's syndrome: Can be
partially reversed if caught early & treated with high doses of _____________.
Abstinence is essential to stop dementia progression. Period __________ tests.
__________ groups
✔✔25-30 - ✔✔MMSE questionably significant number range
✔✔20-25 - ✔✔MMSE mild cognitive impairment
✔✔0-10 - ✔✔MMSE severe cognitive impairment
✔✔Processing speed and executive function - ✔✔these 2 ARE NOT tested in the
MMSE
✔✔27, 30 - ✔✔Know scoring for SLUMS:
HS educated:
__________-_________= normal.
✔✔21, 26 - ✔✔_______-_________Mild neurocognitive disorder in SLUMS hs
educated
✔✔1, 20 - ✔✔_______-_________= dementia SLUMS hs educated
✔✔25, 30, 20, 24, 1, 19 - ✔✔Below HS education SLUMS:
, _______-_______ =normal.
_______-_______= Mild neurocognitive disorder _______-_______ = dementia
✔✔6 - ✔✔Grief-is lasting ___ months?
✔✔despaired, widowed - ✔✔RISK FACTORS for depression IN OLDER ADULTS:
INTEGRITY VS ___________, retired, loss of independence,
____________/WHITE/MALES.
✔✔TRAUMA - ✔✔RISK FACTORS IN PEDS for depression: SOCIOECONOMIC,
___________, NSSI (SELF HARM)
✔✔50, SSRI - ✔✔______% of patients with dementia have depression. Start with an
________, avoid anticholinergic antidepressants.
✔✔hypotension, P450, sedation, EPS - ✔✔If give antipsychotic for severe behavioral
problem, start very low, monitor for ___________, ___________ effects, ___________,
and _________.
✔✔Lewy - ✔✔Avoid giving antipsychotics to patients with ________ body dementia
✔✔Cardiovascular SE: CVA and MI - ✔✔Black box warning dementia antipsychotics:
✔✔cardiovascular - ✔✔Black box warning dementia TCA:
✔✔sleeping beauty syndrome, withdrawal, bed - ✔✔Kleine Levin syndrome is also
known as ____________________________. It is called that because wakeful periods
are usually marked by _____________ from social contacts and return to _________ at
first opportunity.
✔✔Kleine Levin, eating, aggression - ✔✔A patient has ____________ ________
syndrome if they display voracious _________, hypersexuality, and ___________.
✔✔several, 1, 10 - ✔✔Episodes of Kleine Levin syndrome usually last a few days up to
__________ weeks and appear _____ - _______times per year. Once the episode
subsides, normal sleep/wake cycles occur; until next episode.
✔✔10, 21 - ✔✔Kleine Levin syndrome: First attack occurs between ages of ____ and
____ years of age.
✔✔Idiopathic hypersomnia - ✔✔It may be associated with or without very long sleep
periods, after which the individual remains sleepy. Excessive sleepiness in which
patients do not have the ancillary symptoms associated with narcolepsy. The patient
readily falls asleep if given an opportunity to nap the following day. There is often
