1. Bilateral weakness in cranial nerve V (CN V) would be suggestive of Bilateral hemispheric disease
2. When evaluating the six cardinal directions of
... [Show More] gaze, a loss of conjugate movements is noted when the patient looks to his left. This finding could be consistent with damage to which cranial nerve?
Cranial nerve IV (Cranial Nerve III, IV, and VI)
3. Brief, repetitive, stereotyped, coordinated movements occurring at irregular intervals are consistent with
Facial tics
4. Symptoms of a migraine headache can include throbbing nausea or vomiting, duration of one day, and be unilateral and/or disabling. How many of these symptoms should be present to classify the headaches as a migraine?
Three of the five
5. One way to assess cerebellar function would be to have the patient Hop on one foot
6. A patient Is instructed to stand, close both eyes, and extend both arms forward with the palms facing upward for 20-30 seconds. If the forearm drifts downward, the would indicate:
Corticospinal tract lesion
7. When evaluating a patient for weakness of the upper extremities, bilateral proximal limb weakness without sensory loss is noted. This finding could be suggestive of
Alcohol myopathy.
8. To evaluate a patient’s response to a vibration sensation, the nurse practitioner would ask the patient to identify
The sensation when the tuning fork is placed on the big toe.
9. The three important questions that govern the neurological examination include: is the mental status intact? Are right sided and left sided findings symmetric? And
If findings are abnormal, is the cause in the central or peripheral nervous system?
10. During the type of seizure activity, the patient experiences partial seizures that resemble tonic- clonic seizures. The patient may recall the aura and a unilateral neurologic deficit is present during the postictal period. This type of seizure activity is referred to as a:
Focal seizure that becomes generalized
11. Having the patient shrug his shoulders and elicit neck movements would be testing Cranial nerve:
XI
12. An ischemic stroke is
An infarction episode of neurologic dysfunction by focal brain, spinal cord, or retinal ischemia, without acute infarction.
13. When trying to determine the level of consciousness in patient whose level of consciousness is altered, a lethargic patient:
Appears drowsy but opens the eyes, looks at the examiners, answers the questions, and then falls asleep.
14. The level of consciousness that refers to the patient that arouses from sleep only after painful stimuli is known as:
Stupor
15. The term used to describe a distortion of any sense, especially that of touch, is: Dysesthesia
16. When assessing the cranial nerve, the nurse practitioner instructs the patient to raise both eyebrows, frown, and smile. These maneuvers would be assessing which cranial nerve?
Cranial nerve XII (CN VII) [Show Less]