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Advanced Health Assessment Exam 3 Review Questions & Answers
,Advanced Health Assessment Exam 3 Review Questions &
Answers
The wife of a 65-year-old client tells the nurse that she is
concerned because she has noticed a change in her husband's
personality and ability to understand. He also cries and becomes
angry very easily. The nurse recalls that the cerebral lobe
responsible for these behaviors is the lobe.
A) frontal
B) parietal
C) occipital
D) temporal - A
A CLIENT WAS ADMITTED TO THE ED WITH SLURRED
SPEECH. THE NURSE NOTES THAT THIS COULD BE
DUE TO DYSFUNCTION OF WHAT CRANIAL NERVE(S)?
A) Cranial Nerve I
B) Cranial Nerve V
C) Cranial Nerves IX and X
D) Cranial Nerve III - C
The nurse is assessing a client who may have suffered a stroke.
Which of these statements is true concerning areas of the brain?
A) The cerebellum is the center for speech and emotions.
B) The hypothalamus controls temperature and regulates sleep.
C) The basal ganglia are responsible for controlling voluntary
movements.
D) Motor pathways of the spinal cord and brainstem synapse in
, the thalamus. - B
The nurse is testing the function of cranial nerve XI. Which of
these best describes the response the nurse should expect if the
nerve is intact? The client:
A) demonstrates ability to hear normal conversation.
, B) sticks tongue out midline without tremors or deviation.
C) follows an object with both eyes without nystagmus or
strabismus.
D) moves the head and shoulders against resistance with equal
strength. - D
During the history, a client tells the nurse that "it feels like the
room is spinning around me." The nurse would document this
as:
A) vertigo.
B) syncope.
C) dizziness.
D) seizure activity - A
A female client is in the clinic with weakness in her left arm
and leg that she has noticed for the past week. which type of
neurologic examination would be most appropriate for this
client?
A) Glasgow Coma Scale
B) Neurologic Recheck Examination
C) Neurologic Screening Examination
D) Complete Neurologic Examination - D
During a neurological assessment, the nurse finds the following:
asymmetry when the client smiles or frowns, uneven lifting of
eyebrows, sagging of the lower eyelids, and escape of air from
one side only when the nurse presses against the puffed cheeks.
This would indicate dysfunction of which of these cranial
Advanced Health Assessment Exam 3 Review Questions & Answers
,Advanced Health Assessment Exam 3 Review Questions &
Answers
The wife of a 65-year-old client tells the nurse that she is
concerned because she has noticed a change in her husband's
personality and ability to understand. He also cries and becomes
angry very easily. The nurse recalls that the cerebral lobe
responsible for these behaviors is the lobe.
A) frontal
B) parietal
C) occipital
D) temporal - A
A CLIENT WAS ADMITTED TO THE ED WITH SLURRED
SPEECH. THE NURSE NOTES THAT THIS COULD BE
DUE TO DYSFUNCTION OF WHAT CRANIAL NERVE(S)?
A) Cranial Nerve I
B) Cranial Nerve V
C) Cranial Nerves IX and X
D) Cranial Nerve III - C
The nurse is assessing a client who may have suffered a stroke.
Which of these statements is true concerning areas of the brain?
A) The cerebellum is the center for speech and emotions.
B) The hypothalamus controls temperature and regulates sleep.
C) The basal ganglia are responsible for controlling voluntary
movements.
D) Motor pathways of the spinal cord and brainstem synapse in
, the thalamus. - B
The nurse is testing the function of cranial nerve XI. Which of
these best describes the response the nurse should expect if the
nerve is intact? The client:
A) demonstrates ability to hear normal conversation.
, B) sticks tongue out midline without tremors or deviation.
C) follows an object with both eyes without nystagmus or
strabismus.
D) moves the head and shoulders against resistance with equal
strength. - D
During the history, a client tells the nurse that "it feels like the
room is spinning around me." The nurse would document this
as:
A) vertigo.
B) syncope.
C) dizziness.
D) seizure activity - A
A female client is in the clinic with weakness in her left arm
and leg that she has noticed for the past week. which type of
neurologic examination would be most appropriate for this
client?
A) Glasgow Coma Scale
B) Neurologic Recheck Examination
C) Neurologic Screening Examination
D) Complete Neurologic Examination - D
During a neurological assessment, the nurse finds the following:
asymmetry when the client smiles or frowns, uneven lifting of
eyebrows, sagging of the lower eyelids, and escape of air from
one side only when the nurse presses against the puffed cheeks.
This would indicate dysfunction of which of these cranial
