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NUR 1600 ( LATEST 2024 / 2025 ) TEST 4 | A+ RATED GUIDE | QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (SOLVED)
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NUR 1600 Test 41. Cognition
Answer
Mental process of acquiring knowledge through thought, experience, and senses
2. Intracranial regulation
Answer
Mechanisms or conditions that impact intracranial pro- cessing and function.
Intracranial
those components that lie within the skull, which include the brain, circulatory
system, and dura mater
regulation
Compliance and maintenance of balance
3. Family dynamics
Answer
Interrelationships between and among family members or "the forces that work within a family
that produce particular behaviors or symptoms.
4. Optimal cognitive health
Answer
the ability to clearly think, learn, and remember.
5. Cognitive impairment
Answer
Deficits in intellectual functioning; signifies observable or measurable disturbance in a cognitive
process
6. Preventive health activities
,Answer
- Maintain a healthy lifestyle
Healthy diet, physical- ly active
- Stay connected with social activities
- Keep mind active
- Manage stress
- Heart Health = Brain - Health (manage blood pressure)
- Avoid substance abuse
- Avoid high-risk behaviors (to reduce chance of brain injury)
7. Healthy People 2030 goals for TBI
Answer
Targets to reduce fatal TBIs and improve post-injury activities
8. USPSTF recommendations to prevent falls in community-dw adults
Answer
9. Risk factors for TBI
Answer
- High-risk behaviors
- employment (military, law enforcement)
- falls
- assaults
- sports-related injuries
- driving while impaired
- crashes involving
Answer
, motor vehicles, bike, pedestrians, recreational vehicles
10. Levels of prevention for TBI
Answer
Primary
- wear seatbelts/helmets
- don't drink/use substances and drive
- prevent falls (check environment, safety socks, call light within reach)
- proper safety equipment while playing sports
- firearm safety. secondary
- Intimate partner violence screening tool (WAST or HITS)
- elder abuse screening tools
- child abuse screening tools tertiary
- Will depend on extent of injury...may need hospitalization/surgery- rehabilitation
11. Abnormal assessment findings with TBI (MILD)
Answer
- Headache
- nausea/vomiting
- drowsiness
- problems with speech
- dizziness
- change in vision/hearing
- sensitivity to light/sound
- may/may not have loss of consciousness
- concentration problems
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