This nerve is being assessed when the nurse asks the patient to turn their head and shrug the shoulders while she applies slight pressure.
What is the spinal accessory nerve (IX)?
100
This nerve is affected when patient is not blinking as much as she should be.
What is the trigeminal nerve?
100
Patients report this pain in the few days or hours prior to the onset of Bell's palsy.
What is pain behind the ear?
100
This is cranial nerve V.
What is the trigeminal nerve
100
This is the glossopharyngeal nerve
What is cranial nerve IX?
200
The nurse is assessing this nerve when she asks the patient to protrude the tongue and move the tongue towards the nose, the chin, and side to side. Then the nurse would apply slight pressure to the outside of the cheek while the patient would resist the pressure from the inside with their tongue.
What is the hypoglossal nerve (XII)?
200
The nurse should ask her patient to remove contact lenses before assessing what?
What is the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal nerve?
200
Bell's palsy is defined as this.
What is acute unilateral paralysis of the facial nerve?
200
This is cranial nerve VII
What is the facial nerve?
200
This is the hypoglossal nerve.
What is cranial nerve XII?
300
This cranial nerve is being assessed when the nurse wipes cotton and a paper clip across the patient’s jaw, forehead, and paranasal sinuses.
What is the trigeminal nerve (V).
300
Infection of these places in the body contribute to trigeminal neuralgia?
What is the jaw and teeth?
300
A patient with Bell's palsy cannot perform these functions.
What is whistle and smile?
300
These are the three types of impulses carried by cranial nerves.
What is sensory, motor, or both?
300
This nerve turns the head, shrugs the shoulders, and controls some actions for phonation.
What is the spinal accessory nerve?
400
The nurse is assessing this nerve when she asks the patient to raise eyebrows, purse lips, close eyes tightly, smile, show teeth, and puff out the cheeks.
What is the facial nerve (VII)?
400
This is the way patients describe pain from trigeminal neuralgia.
What is stab-like, radiating pain?
400
This abnormality involving the forehead occurs in Bell's palsy.
What is inability to wrinkle?
400
This is the cranial nerve providing impulses to move the tongue for speech sound articulation and swallowing.
What is cranial nerve IX?
400
This is the nerve that controls tongue movement for speech sound articulation (l, t, and n) and swallowing
What is the hypoglossal nerve?
500
The nurse is assessing this nerve when she asks the patient to stick out their tongue and say "ah".
What is the vagus nerve (X)?
500
Trigeminal neuralgia pain is caused by what?
What is pressure on or degeneration of the trigeminal nerve?
500
The final characteristic of Bell's palsy is this abnormality involving the eye.
Eye on the affected side does not close
500
This nerve provides impulses for these three functions: the movement of the facial expression muscles, taste and secretion of saliva and tears.
What is the facial nerve (VII)?
500
This is the abnormal reaction to a test of the hypoglossal nerve.