NUR 3227 VSIM MARY RICHARDS
FEEDBACK LOG FINAL EXAM PAPER 2026
COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ What is the parasympathetic nervous system responsible for? Answer:
Conserving energy and the body's resources
⩥ What is the sympathetic nervous system responsible for? Answer:
Catecholamine release - Epinephrine
Mobilizing energy stores and decreasing release of insulin
Redistributing blood low - Increasing to muscles and lungs (flight) and
decreasing to GI/Integumentary
⩥ What are the classifications of primary brain injury? Answer: Focal or
diffuse
⩥ What are focal brain injuries? Answer: Specific, grossly observable
lesions that occur in a precise location
,⩥ What are examples of focal brain injuries? Answer: Epidural
hemorrhage and subdural hemorrhage
⩥ What are examples of diffuse brain injuries? Answer: Hypoxia,
meningitis, encephalitis, and damage to blood vessels
⩥ What can happen with increased intracranial pressures? Answer:
Collateral dysfunction such as Diabetes Insipidus
⩥ What are characteristics of autonomic hyperreflexia? Answer:
Paroxysmal hypertension, pounding headache, blurred vision, sweating
above level of lesion with flushing of skin, nasal congestion, nausea,
piloerection causes by pilomotor spasm, and bradycardia.
⩥ What is the sequence of events leading to hyperreflexia induced
bradycardia? Answer: Stimulation of the carotid sinus nerve to the
sinoatrial nose
The intact autonomic nervous system reflexively responds with
arteriolar spasm that increases blood pressure
Baroreceptors in the cerebral vessels, carotid sinus, and aorta sense the
hypertension and stimulation the parasympathetic nervous system
, The heart rate decreases, but the visceral and peripheral vessels do not
dilate because efferent impulses cannot pass through the cord
⩥ What are the onset of delirium and dementia? Answer: Delirium -
acute and common during hospitalization
Dementia - usually insidious and can be acute in situations such as
trauma or stroke
⩥ What conditions are associated with delirium? Answer: UTI, thyroid
disorders, hypoxia, hypoglycemia, toxicity, fluid-electrolyte imbalance,
renal insufficiency, trauma, multiple medications
⩥ What conditions are associated with dementia? Answer: May have no
other conditions
⩥ What is the course of delirium? Answer: Fluctuates and remits with
treatment
⩥ What is the course with dementia? Answer: chronic slow decline
⩥ What is the duration of delirium? Answer: Hours to weeks
⩥ What is the duration of dementia? Answer: Months to years
FEEDBACK LOG FINAL EXAM PAPER 2026
COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ What is the parasympathetic nervous system responsible for? Answer:
Conserving energy and the body's resources
⩥ What is the sympathetic nervous system responsible for? Answer:
Catecholamine release - Epinephrine
Mobilizing energy stores and decreasing release of insulin
Redistributing blood low - Increasing to muscles and lungs (flight) and
decreasing to GI/Integumentary
⩥ What are the classifications of primary brain injury? Answer: Focal or
diffuse
⩥ What are focal brain injuries? Answer: Specific, grossly observable
lesions that occur in a precise location
,⩥ What are examples of focal brain injuries? Answer: Epidural
hemorrhage and subdural hemorrhage
⩥ What are examples of diffuse brain injuries? Answer: Hypoxia,
meningitis, encephalitis, and damage to blood vessels
⩥ What can happen with increased intracranial pressures? Answer:
Collateral dysfunction such as Diabetes Insipidus
⩥ What are characteristics of autonomic hyperreflexia? Answer:
Paroxysmal hypertension, pounding headache, blurred vision, sweating
above level of lesion with flushing of skin, nasal congestion, nausea,
piloerection causes by pilomotor spasm, and bradycardia.
⩥ What is the sequence of events leading to hyperreflexia induced
bradycardia? Answer: Stimulation of the carotid sinus nerve to the
sinoatrial nose
The intact autonomic nervous system reflexively responds with
arteriolar spasm that increases blood pressure
Baroreceptors in the cerebral vessels, carotid sinus, and aorta sense the
hypertension and stimulation the parasympathetic nervous system
, The heart rate decreases, but the visceral and peripheral vessels do not
dilate because efferent impulses cannot pass through the cord
⩥ What are the onset of delirium and dementia? Answer: Delirium -
acute and common during hospitalization
Dementia - usually insidious and can be acute in situations such as
trauma or stroke
⩥ What conditions are associated with delirium? Answer: UTI, thyroid
disorders, hypoxia, hypoglycemia, toxicity, fluid-electrolyte imbalance,
renal insufficiency, trauma, multiple medications
⩥ What conditions are associated with dementia? Answer: May have no
other conditions
⩥ What is the course of delirium? Answer: Fluctuates and remits with
treatment
⩥ What is the course with dementia? Answer: chronic slow decline
⩥ What is the duration of delirium? Answer: Hours to weeks
⩥ What is the duration of dementia? Answer: Months to years
