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NIHSS Certification Exam Review
Questions & Answers
1. What does NIHSS stand for?
Answer National Institute of Health Stroke Scale
2. What are 6 important conventions to remember when scoring a NIHSS?
Answer -
Administer scale items in EXACT order
Avoid coaching the patient
Accept the patient's first effort
Score only what the patient does
Be consistent
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Include all deficits in scoring
3. When administering an NIHSS what is important to remember about the
order of the test?
Answer Do not change the order of the testing, go in exact order to reproduce
results.
4. A nurse is administering a NIHSS. He/she re preforms the test after a poor
first result.The patient scores much better on the second attempt.Which test
result should the nurse record in the patient's records?Why?
Answer The first attempt.Only first attempts are recorded as an attempt to keep the
NIHSS uniform throughouthealthcare.
5. What is the first item of the NIHSS? 1A
Answer Level of Consciousness
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NIHSS Certification Exam Review
Questions & Answers
1. What does NIHSS stand for?
Answer National Institute of Health Stroke Scale
2. What are 6 important conventions to remember when scoring a NIHSS?
Answer -
Administer scale items in EXACT order
Avoid coaching the patient
Accept the patient's first effort
Score only what the patient does
Be consistent
1/2
1 of 7 12/10/2024, 8:01
,NIHSS Certification Exam Review.pdf file:///C:/Users/HP/Desktop/New%20folder%20(3)/NIHSS%20Certifi
Include all deficits in scoring
3. When administering an NIHSS what is important to remember about the
order of the test?
Answer Do not change the order of the testing, go in exact order to reproduce
results.
4. A nurse is administering a NIHSS. He/she re preforms the test after a poor
first result.The patient scores much better on the second attempt.Which test
result should the nurse record in the patient's records?Why?
Answer The first attempt.Only first attempts are recorded as an attempt to keep the
NIHSS uniform throughouthealthcare.
5. What is the first item of the NIHSS? 1A
Answer Level of Consciousness
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