Quiz1

The nurse is aware that when assessing a patient by the FOUR score coma scale, the patient is assessed in four catergories: eye response, brainstem reflexes, motor response, and respiration. How are these results reported?

As individual scores in each category

Fibers that conduct impulses away from the cell body are called?

Axons

The nurse is assessing a client's extraocular eye movements as part of the neurologic examination. Which cranial nerves are the nurse assessing?

Cranial nerve 11 Cranial nerve 111 Cranial nerve 1V

A client is diagnosed with a brain tumor. The nurse's assessment reveals that the client has difficulty interpreting visual stimuli. Based on these findings, the nurse suspects injury to what lobe of the brain?

Occiptal

The structure in the CNS where the myelin sheat emerge is known as?

Oligodendrocytes

What are the two divisions of the nervous system?

central and peripheral

The oculomotor nerve controls movements of the?

eye

The layer of the meninges that most closely follows the contours of the brain is the ?

pia matter

The nurse is evaluating a client's cranial nerves during a routine examination. To assess the function of cranial nerve X11(hypoglossal), the nurse should instruct the client to?

stick out the tongue and move it rapidly from side to side and in and and out

For a client with suspected increased intracranial pressure (ICP), a most appropriate respiratory goal is to?

promote carbon dioxide elimination

What Glasgow Coma Scale rating would a patient receive who opens the eyes spontaneously, but has incomprehensible speech and obeys commands for movement?

12

When caring for a client with a head injury, the nurse must stay alert for signs and symptoms of increased intracranial pressure (ICP). Which cardiovascular findings are late indicatiors of increased ICP?

Rising blood pressure and bradycardia

The structure in the PNS where the myelin sheat emerge is called?

Schwann Cell

A client with respiratory complications of multiple sclerosis (MS) is admitted to the medical-surgical unit. Which equipment is most important for the nurse to keep at the client's bedside?

Suction machine with catheters

Family members would like to bring in birthday cake for a client wih nerve damage. What cranial nerve needs to be functioning so the client can chew?

Cranial nerve V

Fibers that conducts impulses toward the cell body are called?

Dendrites

A client with a suspected brain tumor is scheduled for computed tomography (CT). What should the nurse do when preparing the client for this test?

Determine whether the client is allergic to iodine, contrast dyes, or shellfish

What is the function of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)?

It cushions the brain and spinal cord

What is the cranial nerve that supplies most of the organs in the thoracic and abdominal cavities and also carries motor fibers to glands that produce digestive juices and other secretions?

Vagus nerve

What is the nurse assessing when asking the patient. "Who is the president of the United States"?

Fund of knowledge