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N300 NURSING FUNDAMENTALS FINAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS VERIFIED UPDATE 2025/2026
Terms in this set (73)
The sensory experience Sensory Reception → the process of receiving
components and how data about external and internal environment
the body perceives through senses.
and receives Sensory Perception → is the conscious process
stimuli. of selecting, organizing, and interpreting data
from senses into meaningful information.
Visual (vision)
Auditory
(hearing)
Olfactory
Senses involved in (smell)
Sensory Reception Gustator
y (taste)
Tactile
(touch)
Stereognosis (perceives solidity of objects,
where you put an object in your hand and you
identify it.)
Perception influenced by the intensity of (1) size, change, or
representation of stimuli, past experiences,
knowledge, and attitude.
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Stimulus → the agent act or influence capable of
initiating a response by the nervous system.
Receptor → receives the stimulus and coverts it to a
Four conditions to receive nerve stimulus
data The nerve impulse must be conducted along a
nervous pathway or sense organ to brain.
Functioning brain to receive and translate impulse into
a sensation.
Visual (vision)
Auditory
Senses that humans (hearing)
maintain contact with the Olfactory
external environment (smell)
Gustator
y (taste)
Tactile
(touch)
Reticular activating system (RAS) → a poorly
(1) RAS (what it controls) defined network that extends from
and (2)the optimal hypothalamus to the medulla, mediates
arousal state arousal.
The optimal arousal state → is a general
drive state called sensoristasis. Monitors
and regulates incoming sensory stimuli.
Conscious States → delirium, dementia,
States of Awareness confusion, normal consciousness,
somnolence, minimally conscious
states, locked-in syndrome Unconscious
States → asleep, stupor, coma,
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N300 NURSING FUNDAMENTALS FINAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS VERIFIED UPDATE 2025/2026
Terms in this set (73)
The sensory experience Sensory Reception → the process of receiving
components and how data about external and internal environment
the body perceives through senses.
and receives Sensory Perception → is the conscious process
stimuli. of selecting, organizing, and interpreting data
from senses into meaningful information.
Visual (vision)
Auditory
(hearing)
Olfactory
Senses involved in (smell)
Sensory Reception Gustator
y (taste)
Tactile
(touch)
Stereognosis (perceives solidity of objects,
where you put an object in your hand and you
identify it.)
Perception influenced by the intensity of (1) size, change, or
representation of stimuli, past experiences,
knowledge, and attitude.
1/
14
, 8/21/25, 8:50
AM
Stimulus → the agent act or influence capable of
initiating a response by the nervous system.
Receptor → receives the stimulus and coverts it to a
Four conditions to receive nerve stimulus
data The nerve impulse must be conducted along a
nervous pathway or sense organ to brain.
Functioning brain to receive and translate impulse into
a sensation.
Visual (vision)
Auditory
Senses that humans (hearing)
maintain contact with the Olfactory
external environment (smell)
Gustator
y (taste)
Tactile
(touch)
Reticular activating system (RAS) → a poorly
(1) RAS (what it controls) defined network that extends from
and (2)the optimal hypothalamus to the medulla, mediates
arousal state arousal.
The optimal arousal state → is a general
drive state called sensoristasis. Monitors
and regulates incoming sensory stimuli.
Conscious States → delirium, dementia,
States of Awareness confusion, normal consciousness,
somnolence, minimally conscious
states, locked-in syndrome Unconscious
States → asleep, stupor, coma,
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