Nclex Review

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acculturatione

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process of learning norms, beliefs, and behavioral expectations of a group other than one's own group.

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Roman Catholicism

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Avoid meat on Ash Wednesday and Fridays of Lent

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Judaism

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Fish that have scales and find are allowed. Animals allowed include animals that are vegetable eaters. During Passover, only unlearned bread is eaten.

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yin and yang

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cold and hot

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Aloe

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Anti- inflammatory and antimicrobial effects

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Angelica

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antispasmodic and vasodilator; balance the effects of estrogen

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Chamomile

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Antispasmodic and Anti-inflammatory; produces a mild sedatives

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Garlic

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Antioxidant; used to lower cholesterol levels

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Ginger

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Antiemetic

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Gingko Biloba

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Antioxidant; used to improve memory

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Ginseng

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Increases physical endurance and stamina; used for stress and fatigue

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Kava

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Antianxiety and Skeletal muscle relaxant; produces a sedatives affect

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St. John Worts

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Antibacterial, antiviral, and antidepressant

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frontal lobe

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controls emotions, judgements, controls motor aspects of speech, primary motor cortex for voluntary muscle activation

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parietal lobe

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sensory information about touch, proprioception, temperature, and pain

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temporal lobe

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responsible for auditory information, and language comphrension

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Occipital Lobe

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Visual information

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Cerebellum

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coordination and muscle balance

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Brainstem (midbrain, pons, and medulla)

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respiratory and cardiac center, nerve pathways to the brain

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thalamus

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touch, pain, and temperature

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Hypothalamus

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maintain body homeostasis, help regulate body temp, help regulate appetite control, thirst center, sleeping cycle, and control hormone secretio

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Glasgow Coma scAle

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+Eye opening
+Best motor Response
+Best verbal Response

Total score (3-15) score less than 8 equal a Coma

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Sympathetic (Fight or Flight)

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Dilated pupils
^ HR and RR
Sweating
Epinephrine and Norepinephrine secreted
^ BP
Construction of skin and abdominal

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Parasymathetic

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Constructed pupils
Lower HR and RR
Increase peristalsis
Acetycholine screted
Decrease BP
Relax of skin and abdominal

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Cranial Nerves (Eye Function)

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III Oculomotor
IV Trochlear
VI Abducens

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Decorticate

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Upper limbs flex toward the body and lower limbs in extension

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Decerebrate

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Increase time with all limbs in a position of extension

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Apraxia

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inability to perform purposeful movements

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Agnosia

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inability to recognize familiar objects by various senses

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Spasticity

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Increase tone, hyperactive reflexes, Clomid, babinski

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Ataxia

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General term to describe uncoordinated movements. (gait, posture, and patterns of movements)

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Chorea

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involuntary, rapid, irregular, jerky movements. clinical feature Huntington disease

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Flaccidity

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Absent tone

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Hypotonia

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Decrease tone

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Aphasia

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inability to speak or difficulty

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Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA) Stroke

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Syndrome in which cerebral circulation is interrupted, causing neurological deficits.

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CVA, Stroke...Risk Factors

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Diabetes
Atherosclerosis
HTN
Cardiac disease
Transient Ischemic Attacks

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CVA, Stroke...Causes

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Thrombosis
Embolism
Hemorrhage from rupture of a vessel

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Aneurysm Precautions

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Avoid rectal temperature
Limit visitor
Avoid Valsalva's Maneuver
HOB should b/w 30-45 degrees

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Valsalva's Maneuver

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Occurs when attempting to forcibly exhale with the mouth and nose closed. It causes an increase intrathoracic pressure with an accompanying collapse of the vein of the chest wall

Slowing the pulse
Decrease return of blood to the heart
Increase Intrathoracic Pressure

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Elevated ICP

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Most cases you should:
Maintain proper fluid Volumes
Quiet environment
Elevate HOB 30 degree
Limit Sunctioning

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Horner's Syndrome

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Sympathetic innervation to the face is interrupted by a lesion in the brain stem resulting in pupillary constrictionctions, dry and red face with no sweaty ptosis(drooping)-Mueller's muscle, problem located symathetic ascending fibers

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Autonomic Dysreflexia

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Caused by a lesion in the high thoracic or cervical cord. Severe HTN, sweating and headache noted. May occur with a blockage of catheter

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Parkinson's Disease and S/S

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Degenerative disease with primary involvement of the basal ganglia; characterized by the following:

Bradykinesia (slow movements)
Resting Tremor
Impaired postural reflexes
Rigidity
Loss of inhibitory dopamine
Emotional lability

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Multiple Sclerosis and S/S

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Progressive demyelinating disease of the CNS affecting mostly young adults

Fluctuating Exacerbations (Fatigue)
Confirmed with. lumbar puncture, elevated gamma globulins, CT/MRI, myelogram, EEG
Mild to moderate impaired cognition common
Sensory Deficits
Bowel and bladder Deficits
Spasticity common
Ataxic Gait

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Myasthemia Gravis and S/S

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Neuromuscular do characterized by fatigue of skeletal muscles and muscular weakness

Progressive involvement
Decrease muscle membrane acetylcholine receptors
Severe Weakness
Facial, ocular and bulbar Weakness
Possible life-threatening respiratory muscle weakness
Probable use of anticholinesterase drugs for treatment

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Guallain-Barre's Syndrom and S/S

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Poluneuropathy with progressive muscular weakness

Demyelination of peripheral and cranial nerves
Motor paralysis in an ascendi g pattern
3% mortality - respiratory failure
Autonomic Dysfunction-arrhythmias, BP changes, tachycardia

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ALS Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Have it's Disease) and S/S

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Death typically IN 2-5 years
Spasticity, Hyperreflexia
Dysarthria, Dysphagia
Autonomic Dysfunction in aport 1/3 of patients

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Post -Polio Syndrome

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Slowly progressive muscle weakness that occurs in patients with a history of acute poliomyelitis.

New Weakness
Pain/Myalgia
Abnormal Fatgiue

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Epilepsy

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Recurrent seziures due to excessive and audden discharge of cerebral cortical neurons.

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Tonic - Clonic Seizure (Grand Mal)

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Patient confused and drowsy about the seizure, 2 to 5 min

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Meningitis

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Inflammation of the meninges of the spinal cord and brain caused by bacteria. Neisseria Meningitidies, Diplococcus Pneumoniae, and Haemophilus Influenzae

Brudzinkski Sign
Kernig Sign
Stiff Neck
Fever
Confused

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Tidal Volume

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Amount of air that is inhaled and echaled during normal resting ventilation

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Residual Volume

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The amount air remaing in the lungs following a maximal expiration

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Friction Rub

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Caused by the rubbi g of pleural surfaces against one another, usually as the result of inflammation processes

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Rales (Crackles)

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Adventitious breath sounds associated with pathology. Rales can be the result of air bubbles in secretion or movement of fibrotic tissue during breathing. Basilar rales are often accompanied with left ventricular congestive HF. (Atelectasis, Fibrosis, and PE)