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NURS 5220 Health Assessment: Exam 2/213 Questions and Answers
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NURS 5220 Health Assessment: Exam2/213 Questions and Answers
What part of the brain is responsible for a patients mental status?
A. Limbic System
B. Cerebrum
C. Reticular Activating System - -B. Cerebrum
The cerebrum is primarily responsible for the pateints mentals status, its
divided into 4 lobes, each playing a significant role.
- Which of the following controls behavioral patterns essential for survival
such as emotions and motivation?
A. Limbic System
B. Cerebrum
C. Reticular Activating System - -A. Limbic System
- Which of the following regulates the levels of wakefulness or arousal?
A. Limbic System
B. Cerebrum
C. Reticular Activating System - -C. Reticular Activating System
- What is Aphasia? - -Loss of ability to understand or express speech,
caused by brain damage.
- Expressive Aphasia (Broca's Aphasia) - -Difficulty producing language
- Receptive Aphasia (Wernicke's Aphasia) - -Difficulty understanding
language
- What are the three things the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) assesses? - -Eye
Opening
Verbal Response
Motor Response
- For the Glasgow Coma Scale, what range is considered severe injury or
coma? - -3-8
- For the Glasgow Coma Scale, what range is considered moderate injury? -
-9-12
- For the Glasgow Coma Scale, what range is considered mild injury? - -13-
15
, - What is the Edinburgh Scale? - -The scale used to assess for postpartum
depression
- What is the age range for the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ)? - -4
to 60 months
4 months to 5 years
- What does the Ages and Stages Questionnaire for Social and Emotional
Skills (ASE-SE) screen for? - -Focused on social and emotional development
- What is the age range for the Pediatric Evaluation of Development Status
(PEDS)? - -Ages: 0 to 8 years
- What does the Pediatric Symptoms Checklist (PSC), ages 0-7, screen for? -
-Screens for psychosocial problems in children
- What questionnaire is used to evaluate adolescent depression? - -Patient
Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9)
- Which one of the following phrases can be used to test Abstract
Reasoning?
A. What is your name and date of birth?
B. What are the three words I just said to you 5 minutes ago?
C. What did you eat for dinner last night?
D. What does "A stitch in time saves nine" mean? - -D. What does "A stitch
in time saves nine" mean?
- What is Visual Agnosia? - -Lack of ability to recognize common objects and
demonstrate their use in an activity
- A man is unable to recognize everyday objects and faces, what part of his
brain is affected? - -Occipital Lobe
- A patient comes in to the office, you ask them to close their eyes and
identify the sounds of the room door opening and closing. They misidentify
the sound. What type of Agnosia is this and what part lobe is affected? - -
Auditory Agnosia
Temporal Lobe
- A patient is asked to close their eyes and hold out their hand. The NP
places a quarter in their hand and asks the patient to identify the object. The
patient states that it's a paperclip. What type of Agnosia do they have and
what lobe is affected? - -Tactile Agnosia
Parietal Lobe
, - The patient is given a crumpled piece of paper and instructed to put the
paper in the trash can. The patient heard the words but is unable to
understand the request. What type of Aphasia is this and what is the affected
area of the brain? - -Auditory Aphasia
Temporal Lobe
- What is Expressive Aphasia? - -Inability to produce language
- What part of the brain is affected in Expressive Aphasia? - -Inferior
posterior frontal lobe
- A patient says that he is unable to understand written words on a poster,
what type of Aphasia is this? - -Visual Receptive Aphasia
- What is affected area of the brain that occurs in Visual Receptive Aphasia?
- -Parietal and Occipital Lobes
- The patient understands what I am saying to them, when asked to write
"the cat in the hat" in a piece of paper, they are only able to draw scribbles.
What is the affected area of the brain? - -Posterior Frontal Lobe
- A patient is unable to identify their right from their left eye, which of the
following is this?
A. Agnosia
B. Apraxia
C. Aphasia - -A. Agnosia
Inability to recognize familar objects or sounds despite having the sensory
ability to do so.
- Patient is unable to perform the task of brushing their teeth for the NP
evaluating. Which of the follow is this?
A. Agnosia
B. Apraxia
C. Aphasia - -B. Apraxia
This is the inability to perform learned motor tasks, even through the desire
and physical capacity to perform the movement are present.
- How would you test Cranial Nerve II? - -Optic Nerve: Snellen chart and
check peripheral vision
- Which cranial nerve is responsible for Eye movement (specifically down
and inward)? - -Trochlear Nerve (CN IV)
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