Nursing Assessment: Neurologic System
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- Brocca’a area injury
- Difficulty speaking
- Is dorsiflexion of the big toe and fanning of all toes
- Cremateric response
- During an assessment of the spine, the patient woudl be asked to:
- flex, extend, abduct, and rotate
- Pronation and supination of the hand and forearm are the result of the articulation of the :
- radius and ulna
- anterior and posterior stability is provided to the knee joint by the:
- anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments
- a 70- year old come in ofr a health exam, what common age-related curvature of the spinal column will most likely be found?
- kyphosis
- the timing of joint pain may assist the examiner in determining the cause. The joint pain associated with rheumatic fever would:
- occur 10-14 days after an untreated sore throat
- examination of the shoulder includes four motions. These are:
- forward flexion, internal rotation, abduction, and external rotation.
- the bulge sign is a test for:
- swelling in the suprapatellar pouch.
- the examiner is going to measure the patient's legs for discrepancy. The normal finding would be:
- legs within 1 cm of each other.
- Flexion describes the body movement of:
- bending a limb at a joint
- Extension describes the body movement of:
- straightening a limb at a joint
- abduction describes the body movement of:
- moving a limb away from the midline of the body
- adduction describes the body movement of:
- moving a limb toward the midline of the body
- Pronation describes the body movement of:
- straightening a limb at a joint
- Supination describes the body movement of:
- turning the forearm so that the palm is up
- Circumduction describes the body movement of:
- moving the arm in a circle around the shoulder
- Inversion describes the body movement of:
- moving the sole of the foot inward at the ankle
- Eversion describes the body movement of:
- moving the sole of the foot outward at the ankle
- Rotation describes the body movement of:
- moving the head around a central axis
- Protraction describes the body movement of:
- moving a body part forward and parallel to the ground
- Retraction describes the body movement of:
- moving a body part backward and parallel to the ground
- Elevation describes the body movement of:
- moving the sould of the foot inward at the ankle
- Depression describes the body movement of:
- lowering a body part