Maryville NURS 612 Final Q & As
(Verified Answers) 2026
Which of the Following disorders is known to be heredity?
Peripheral neuropathy
Meningitis
Huntington Chorea
Seizure disorder - Correct Answers ✅Huntington Chorea
The Examiner asks the patient to close her eyes and then
place a vibrating tuning fork on the patients ankle and asks
her to indicate what is felt. What is being assessed? - Correct
Answers ✅Primary sensory function
Multiple sclerosis - Correct Answers ✅Fatigue, bowel and
bladder dysfunction, sexual dysfunction, sensory changes,
muscle weakness
Myasthenia gravis - Correct Answers ✅An autoimmune
disorder of neuromuscular junction involved with muscle
activation.
Whisper Test - Correct Answers ✅CN V111 acoustic
Patient sticks out tongue and moves it from side to side -
Correct Answers ✅CN X11 Hypoglossal
,Maryville NURS 612 Final Q & As
(Verified Answers) 2026
Taste test with sugar, salt, and lemon - Correct Answers
✅CN V11 and CN 1X Facial and glossopharyngeal
Patient puffs out cheeks and shows teeth - Correct Answers
✅CN V11 facial
Patient shrugs shoulders against examiner's hands - Correct
Answers ✅CN X1 Spinal accessary
Smell test with coffee, orange and cloves - Correct Answers
✅CN 1 Olfactory
Eyes constrict and dilate in response to light - Correct
Answers ✅CN 111 oculomotor
patient clinches teeth (temporal muscles contracted) -
Correct Answers ✅CN V Trigeminal
positive Babinski sign be considered a normal finding in what
ages? - Correct Answers ✅0-24 months
The nurse observes the gait of a client as he enters the room.
He uses short steps, keeps his knees in contact, and walks
with considerable effort. What term is used to describe this
gait? - Correct Answers ✅Scissors gait
, Maryville NURS 612 Final Q & As
(Verified Answers) 2026
A nurse observes very fine, rapid, continuous twitching of a
patient's finger while at rest. How should the nurse document
this finding? - Correct Answers ✅Fasciculation
A fasciculation is a fine, rapid twitching that may occur with
some lower motor neuron disease. Paralysis is loss of motor
function. Spasticity is abnormally increased muscle tone. An
intention tremor is an involuntary contraction of a muscle
group occurring with voluntary movement
Under what conditions should a patient be tested for clonus?
- Correct Answers ✅When deep tendon reflexes are
hyperactive
Clonus, repeated reflex muscle movement, is tested when a
patient has hyperactive reflexes. It is found with diseases of
the upper motor neuron. Nuchal rigidity, neck stiffness, is a
sign of meningeal irritation. Absent reflexes are associated
with lower motor neuron diseases. Decorticate positioning, a
state of flexion with the arms adducted, occurs with
hemispheric lesion of the cerebral cortex.
The abdominal reflexes are tested to assess functioning of
the nerves in which location of the spine? - Correct Answers
✅Thoracic
Which change is most commonly observed in aging patients?
- Correct Answers ✅Kyphosis, advanced posterior
curvature of the thoracic spine, occurs commonly with age.
(Verified Answers) 2026
Which of the Following disorders is known to be heredity?
Peripheral neuropathy
Meningitis
Huntington Chorea
Seizure disorder - Correct Answers ✅Huntington Chorea
The Examiner asks the patient to close her eyes and then
place a vibrating tuning fork on the patients ankle and asks
her to indicate what is felt. What is being assessed? - Correct
Answers ✅Primary sensory function
Multiple sclerosis - Correct Answers ✅Fatigue, bowel and
bladder dysfunction, sexual dysfunction, sensory changes,
muscle weakness
Myasthenia gravis - Correct Answers ✅An autoimmune
disorder of neuromuscular junction involved with muscle
activation.
Whisper Test - Correct Answers ✅CN V111 acoustic
Patient sticks out tongue and moves it from side to side -
Correct Answers ✅CN X11 Hypoglossal
,Maryville NURS 612 Final Q & As
(Verified Answers) 2026
Taste test with sugar, salt, and lemon - Correct Answers
✅CN V11 and CN 1X Facial and glossopharyngeal
Patient puffs out cheeks and shows teeth - Correct Answers
✅CN V11 facial
Patient shrugs shoulders against examiner's hands - Correct
Answers ✅CN X1 Spinal accessary
Smell test with coffee, orange and cloves - Correct Answers
✅CN 1 Olfactory
Eyes constrict and dilate in response to light - Correct
Answers ✅CN 111 oculomotor
patient clinches teeth (temporal muscles contracted) -
Correct Answers ✅CN V Trigeminal
positive Babinski sign be considered a normal finding in what
ages? - Correct Answers ✅0-24 months
The nurse observes the gait of a client as he enters the room.
He uses short steps, keeps his knees in contact, and walks
with considerable effort. What term is used to describe this
gait? - Correct Answers ✅Scissors gait
, Maryville NURS 612 Final Q & As
(Verified Answers) 2026
A nurse observes very fine, rapid, continuous twitching of a
patient's finger while at rest. How should the nurse document
this finding? - Correct Answers ✅Fasciculation
A fasciculation is a fine, rapid twitching that may occur with
some lower motor neuron disease. Paralysis is loss of motor
function. Spasticity is abnormally increased muscle tone. An
intention tremor is an involuntary contraction of a muscle
group occurring with voluntary movement
Under what conditions should a patient be tested for clonus?
- Correct Answers ✅When deep tendon reflexes are
hyperactive
Clonus, repeated reflex muscle movement, is tested when a
patient has hyperactive reflexes. It is found with diseases of
the upper motor neuron. Nuchal rigidity, neck stiffness, is a
sign of meningeal irritation. Absent reflexes are associated
with lower motor neuron diseases. Decorticate positioning, a
state of flexion with the arms adducted, occurs with
hemispheric lesion of the cerebral cortex.
The abdominal reflexes are tested to assess functioning of
the nerves in which location of the spine? - Correct Answers
✅Thoracic
Which change is most commonly observed in aging patients?
- Correct Answers ✅Kyphosis, advanced posterior
curvature of the thoracic spine, occurs commonly with age.
