Ans: T/F- Regulation is both neurological and chemical
2). True
Ans: T/F- Most breathing is involuntary but can be conscious and voluntary
3). Medulla
Ans: the base of the brainstem; controls heartbeat and breathing
4). Pons and midbrain
Ans: controls respiration reflexes
5). Cerebellum
Ans: coordinates unconscious body movement
the "little brain" at the rear of the brainstem; functions include processing sensory input
and coordinating movement output and balance
6). Hypothalamus
Ans: coordinates the autonomic nervous system, secretion of hormones
brain structure that acts as a control center for recognition and analysis of hunger, thirst,
fatigue, anger, and body temperature
7). Cerebrum
Ans: controls voluntary movements, judgement, behavior, sensory functioning,
planning, and problem solving
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, Largest part of the brain; responsible for voluntary muscular activity, vision, speech,
taste, hearing, thought, and memory.
8). Objective data
Ans: information that is seen, heard, felt, or smelled by an observer; signs
Collected by means of direct observation, physical examination, and laboratory or
diagnostic tests
9). Subjective data
Ans: things a person tells you about that you cannot observe through your senses;
symptoms
Information gathered from the older person's point of view
Best described in the individual's own words
10). Inspection (1)
Ans: general observation of the patient as a whole, progressing to specific body areas
Most common method
Uses vision, smell, and hearing to collect data
Nurse must be active, alert, aware
Used to assess the overall level
of function.
Used to detect specific areas of need within any particular area of function.
11). Auscultation (3)
Ans: listening to sounds within the body with a stethoscope
12). Palptation (2)
Ans: Using fingertips to touch and feel to identify body parts
Pulses, temperature and texture of the skin, texture and condition of the hair, presence
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, and consistency of tumors or masses under the skin, distention of the urinary bladder,
and presence of pain or tenderness
13). Percussion
Ans: tapping on a surface to determine the difference in the density of the underlying
structure
14). Presbyopia (farsightedness)
Ans: caused by loss of elasticity of the lens of the eye, occurring typically in middle
and old age.
can't see near, but can see far
15). Cognition
Ans: all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and
communicating
16). Perception
Ans: the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses.
17). Water soluble drugs
Ans: Drugs must be water soluble in order to dissolve in the watery contents of the GI
tract.
need a carrier, either enzyme or protein, to pass through the membrane
concentrations in the bloodstream is less total body water
18). Fat soluble drugs
Ans: These store in the fatty areas of the body and can have longer lasting traces in
the body that water-soluble drugs do not.
trapped in the fatty tissue because of decreased muscle mass and increased adipose
tissue.
Cross barrier and mimic NT's.
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