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Assessment Final – Jarvis Test Bank [2026/2027]
Updated Version | Verified Questions & Detailed
Rationales| PDF
A physician tells the nurse that a patients vertebra prominens is
tender and asks the nurse to reevaluate the area in 1 hour. The
area of the body the nurse will assess is:
a. Just above the diaphragm.
b. Just lateral to the knee cap.
c. At the level of the C7 vertebra.
d. At the level of the T11 vertebra. - ..ANSWER...✓✓C
A mother brings her 2-month-old daughter in for an examination
and says, My daughter rolled over against the wall, and now I
have noticed that she has this spot that is soft on the top of her
head. Is something terribly wrong? The nurses best response
would be:
a. Perhaps that could be a result of your dietary intake during
pregnancy.
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b. Your baby may have craniosynostosis, a disease of the sutures
of the brain.
c. That soft spot may be an indication of cretinism or congenital
hypothyroidism.
d. That soft spot is normal, and actually allows for growth of the
brain during the first year of your babys life - ..ANSWER...✓✓
D
The nurse notices that a patients palpebral fissures are not
symmetric. On examination, the nurse may find that damage has
occurred to which cranial nerve (CN)?
a. III
b. V
c. VII
d. VIII - ..ANSWER...✓✓ C
A patient is unable to differentiate between sharp and dull
stimulation to both sides of her face. The nurse suspects:
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a. Bell palsy.
b. Damage to the trigeminal nerve.
c. Frostbite with resultant paresthesia to the cheeks.
d. Scleroderma. - ..ANSWER...✓✓ B
When examining the face of a patient, the nurse is aware that
the two pairs of salivary glands that are accessible to
examination are the ___________ and ___________ glands.
a. Occipital; submental
b. Parotid; jugulodigastric
c. Parotid; submandibular
d. Submandibular; occipital - ..ANSWER...✓✓ C
A patient comes to the clinic complaining of neck and shoulder
pain and is unable to turn her head. The nurse suspects damage
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to CN ______ and proceeds with the examination by
_____________.
a. XI; palpating the anterior and posterior triangles
b. XI; asking the patient to shrug her shoulders against resistance
c. XII; percussing the sternomastoid and submandibular neck
muscles
d. XII; assessing for a positive Romberg sign - ..ANSWER...✓✓ B
When examining a patients CN function, the nurse remembers
that the muscles in the neck that are innervated by CN XI are the:
a. Sternomastoid and trapezius.
b. Spinal accessory and omohyoid.
c. Trapezius and sternomandibular.
d. Sternomandibular and spinal accessory. - ..ANSWER...✓✓ A
Assessment Final – Jarvis Test Bank [2026/2027]
Updated Version | Verified Questions & Detailed
Rationales| PDF
A physician tells the nurse that a patients vertebra prominens is
tender and asks the nurse to reevaluate the area in 1 hour. The
area of the body the nurse will assess is:
a. Just above the diaphragm.
b. Just lateral to the knee cap.
c. At the level of the C7 vertebra.
d. At the level of the T11 vertebra. - ..ANSWER...✓✓C
A mother brings her 2-month-old daughter in for an examination
and says, My daughter rolled over against the wall, and now I
have noticed that she has this spot that is soft on the top of her
head. Is something terribly wrong? The nurses best response
would be:
a. Perhaps that could be a result of your dietary intake during
pregnancy.
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b. Your baby may have craniosynostosis, a disease of the sutures
of the brain.
c. That soft spot may be an indication of cretinism or congenital
hypothyroidism.
d. That soft spot is normal, and actually allows for growth of the
brain during the first year of your babys life - ..ANSWER...✓✓
D
The nurse notices that a patients palpebral fissures are not
symmetric. On examination, the nurse may find that damage has
occurred to which cranial nerve (CN)?
a. III
b. V
c. VII
d. VIII - ..ANSWER...✓✓ C
A patient is unable to differentiate between sharp and dull
stimulation to both sides of her face. The nurse suspects:
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a. Bell palsy.
b. Damage to the trigeminal nerve.
c. Frostbite with resultant paresthesia to the cheeks.
d. Scleroderma. - ..ANSWER...✓✓ B
When examining the face of a patient, the nurse is aware that
the two pairs of salivary glands that are accessible to
examination are the ___________ and ___________ glands.
a. Occipital; submental
b. Parotid; jugulodigastric
c. Parotid; submandibular
d. Submandibular; occipital - ..ANSWER...✓✓ C
A patient comes to the clinic complaining of neck and shoulder
pain and is unable to turn her head. The nurse suspects damage
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to CN ______ and proceeds with the examination by
_____________.
a. XI; palpating the anterior and posterior triangles
b. XI; asking the patient to shrug her shoulders against resistance
c. XII; percussing the sternomastoid and submandibular neck
muscles
d. XII; assessing for a positive Romberg sign - ..ANSWER...✓✓ B
When examining a patients CN function, the nurse remembers
that the muscles in the neck that are innervated by CN XI are the:
a. Sternomastoid and trapezius.
b. Spinal accessory and omohyoid.
c. Trapezius and sternomandibular.
d. Sternomandibular and spinal accessory. - ..ANSWER...✓✓ A
