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NEURO EXAM PRACTICE EXAM (ACTUAL
EXAM) WITH 150+ QUESTIONS WITH VERY
ELABORATED ANSWERS CORRECTRY WELL
ORGANIZED LATEST 2024 – 2025 ALREADY
GRADED A+
A 40-year-old male patient presents to the ED with a traumatic primary brain
injury related to an MVA. Upon assessment, the nurse finds the GCS to be a 6.
Which of the following assessment data did the nurse use to come to this
conclusion?
A) Eyes open to speech; localizes pain; confused.
B) Eyes open spontaneously; abnormal flexion;
inappropriate words.
C) No eye response; flexion-withdrawal;
no verbal response.
,D) No eye response; abnormal flexion;
incomprehensible sounds. - ANSWERS-Answer: D
Eyes Open Spontaneously 4
To speech 3
To pain 2
No response 1
Motor Response Obeys commands 6
Localizes pain 5
Flexion-withdrawal 4
Abnormal flexion 3
Abnormal extension 2
No response 1
Verbal Response Oriented 5
Confused 4
Inappropriate words 3
Incomprehensible
sounds 2
No response 1
,A patient is admitted to the neuro unit with a GCS score of 8. The patient also has
expressive aphasia, memory loss, and impaired logic. The nurse understands that
these are symptoms involved in which type of brain injury?
A) Left-sided
B) Diffuse
C) Right-sided
D) Uncal herniation - ANSWERS-Answer: A
A patient presents to the ED with left-sided headache, confusion, left-sided pupil
enlargement, and left-sided weakness. As the nurse obtains the patient's history,
the wife says, "He just hasn't been acting right since he feel in the kitchen 3 days
ago while making us some lunch". Which of the following diagnoses does the
nurse anticipate for this client?
A) Acute subdural hematoma
B) Mild subdural hematoma
C) Subacute subdural hematoma
D) Chornic subdural hematoma - ANSWERS-Answer: C
*Sub-acute subdural hematoma occurs within 48 hours-2 weeks after a head
injury. Signs/symptoms include unilateral headache, drowsiness, confusion,
ipsilateral pupil enlargement, hemiparesis, and respiration changes.
, The patient who has just undergone craniotomy surgery returns to the neuro unit.
Which of the following lab values indicates that the surgery was a success?
A) PT = 17 seconds
B) BUN = 20
C) Pain = 4 on 0-10 scale
D) ICP = 12 - ANSWERS-Answer: D
*Normal Level ICP = 0-15 mmHg
What would the RN estimate this client's GCS score to be?
A) 13
B) 9
C) 7
D) 4 - ANSWERS-Answer: B
Eyes open to speech = 3
Abnormal flexion = 3
Inappropriate words = 3
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