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NUR 634 Test 1/137 Exam Questions and Answers
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NUR 634 Test 1/137 ExamQuestions and Answers
Attention - -Ability to focus or concentrate
-Obtunded - -You must shake a patient to get a response
-stuporous - -the patient is unarousable except by painful stimuli (sternal
rub)
-Coma - -the patient is completely unarousable
-Memory - -The process of recording and retrieving information
-Perceptions - -Awareness of the objects in the environment to the five
senses and their interrelationships
-Thought process - -The logic, coherence, and relevance of a patients
thoughts as they lead to thoughts and goals
-Insight - -Awareness that thought, symptoms, or behaviors are normal or
abnormal
-Judgement - -Process of comparing and evaluating different possible
courses of action
-Agnosia - -the inability to recognize familiar objects.
-Apraxia - -Inability to perform purposeful movement
-Circumlocutions - -Words or phrases are substituted for the word a person
cannot remember; the thing you block out writing-eraser
-Paraphasias - -Words are malformed; I write with a den- pen
-receptive aphasia - -inability to understand spoken or written words;
wernicki's
-expressive aphasia - -trouble communicating thoughts through speech or
writing; broca's
-incoherence - -speech that is incomprehensible because it is illogical
, -Blocking - -sudden interruption of speech, before the completion of an
idea, occurs in normal people
-Confabulation - -fabrication of facts to hide memory impairment
-Perseveration - -Persistent repetition of words or ideas
-Echolalia - -repetition of the words or phrases of others
-Clanging - -choosing a word on the basis of sound rather than meaning
-Circumstantiality - -Speech characterized by indirection and delay due to
the patients excessive use of details that have no connection to the point
-derailment - -speech in which a person shifts topics with no apparent
relation between the topics
-flight of ideas - -accelerated change of topics in a very fast but generally
coherent manner
-neologism - -invented or distorted words
-Compulsions - -Repetitive behaviors that a person feels driven to perform
-Obessesions - -Recurrent, uncontrollable thoughts, images, or impulses
that the patients considers acceptable
-illusion - -misinterpretation of real stimuli; postman leaves mail so he is
plotting against them
-Hallucinations - -A subjective perception of things that do not exist
-vellus hair - -short, fine, less pigmentation hair
-Terminal hair - -coarse, long, pigmented hair of scalp/eyebrow
-eccrine glands - -Widely distributed, open directly onto skin surface, help
control body temp
-apocrine glands - -found in axillary and genital areas; stimulated by stress
-tinea capitis - -ringworm of the scalp; black dots
-toxic alopecia - -Hair loss due to fever
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