Exam 4 Clicker Qs

Question 1

A client is started on levodopa, what type of side effects would be expected?

Answer 1

Sleep disorders such as insomnia

Question 2

What is a common cause of vascular dementia?

Answer 2

Multiple strokes causes want?

Question 3

Amyloid plaques and neurofibril tangles or diagnosis signs of what?

Answer 3

What is the diagnostic indicator of Alzheimer’s disease?

Question 4

Medications inhibit AChE Will do what?

Answer 4

Increase acetylcholine levels

Question 5

When a client takes phenothiazines for an extended period of time, what might the nurse expect to see?

Answer 5

Parkinsonism

Question 6

Client develops EPS after taking phonothiazines, The nurse anticipate an order for what?

Answer 6

diphenhydramine

Question 7

You would anticipate the following symptoms with early signs of Parkinson’s disease

Answer 7

Tremor, muscle rigidity and weakness, bradykinesia

Question 8

Causes of muscle spasms include

Answer 8

Overmedication with antipsychotic medications, hypocalcemia, epilepsy

Question 9

Symptoms of a calcium overdose

Answer 9

Kidney stones, muscle weakness, nausea vomiting, change in heart rate, constipation or diarrhea

Question 10

Nonpharmacological ways to treat muscle spasm’s include

Answer 10

Thermal therapy, hydrotherapy, ultrasound

Question 11

What is an early indicator of increased intercranial pressure?

Answer 11

Decreased responsiveness is an early sign of what?

Question 12

What are later signs of increased intercranial pressure?

Answer 12

Bilateral fixed dilated pupils, rapid heart rate, papilledema

Question 13

What is the rationale for vomiting in a patient who has increases ICP?

Answer 13

Pressure on the emetic center in the medulla

Question 14

What is the typical change in blood pressure in a patient who has increased intracranial pressure?

Answer 14

Increasing pulse pressure is found in what condition?

Question 15

What causes papilledema?

Answer 15

Increased pressure of CSF at optic disc

Question 16

As intercranial pressure rises, the pupil of the eye, ipsilateral to the lesion, becomes dilated and unresponsive to light because of pressure on the what?

Answer 16

Peripheral nervous system fibers and cranial nerve III

Question 17

Throughout what area does a cerebral spinal fluid circulate around the brain and spinal cord?

Answer 17

In the subarachnoid space

Question 18

Which characteristic indicates that CSF is normal?

Answer 18

Clear in colorless fluid

Question 19

The location of language center in a right handed individual

Answer 19

Left hemisphere

Question 20

What would be the effect of damage to the auditory association in the left hemisphere of a right hand dominant client?

Answer 20

Inability to understand what is heard

Question 21

What is the major function of the limbic system?

Answer 21

Determines emotional response

Question 22

What are common signs and symptoms of hydrocephalus in infants?

Answer 22

Unusually large head, rapid increase in size of head, bulging fontanelle

Question 23

Older child and adult signs and symptoms of hydrocephalus include what?

Answer 23

Blurred vision, headache, poor circulation