Cranial Nerves
This nerve has motor functions that control facial muscles, like smiling or frowning.
What is the Facial nerve (Cranial Nerve VII)?
This scale is used to assess a patient's level of consciousness, especially in cases of traumatic brain injury.
What is the Glascow Coma Scale (GCS)?
This condition results in the gradual loss of central vision and is often associated with aging.
What is macular degeneration (AMD)?
Hearing loss due to aging.
What is Presbycusis?
This is an issue new grad RNs may have where they feel incompetent and like they are a fraud.
What is Imposter Syndrome?
This nerve carries visual information from the retina to the brain.
What is the Optic nerve (Cranial Nerve II)?
This is an abnormal response that appears as a rhythmic contraction of a muscle when a stimulus is being applied.
What is clonus?
This condition involves the clouding of the lens, leading to blurry vision, often seen in older adults.
What are cataracts?
Hearing loss from damage to the inner ear or CN VIII. Associated with aging and manifests as issues hearing high-pitched sounds.
What is sensorineural hearing loss?
This Act includes a patient's right to refuse treatment.
What is the Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA)?
This cranial nerve allows you to hear and maintain balance.
What is the Vestibulocochlear nerve (Cranial Nerve VIII)?
Observing this posture would score a 3 for Motor Response in the GCS.
What is Decorticate (abnormal flexion)?
Although severity varies, this condition causes impaired vision and is always an emergency.
What is Retinal Detachment?
Feeling that a person or objects around them are moving or spinning.
What is vertigo?
This nursing theorist is known for her theory "From Novice to Expert?"
Who is Patricia Benner?
Loss of gag reflex could indicate damage to this nerve.
What is the Glossopharyngeal nerve (Cranial Nerve IX)?
These are appropriate ways to apply painful stimuli when assessing patients.
What is a trapezius squeeze, supraorbital pressure, and fingernail bed pressure?
Injecting anti-VEGF drugs into the eye can help slow disease progression for which condition.
What is wet-AMD?
Vestibular tests, such as a caloric test, and an electronystagmography (ENS) can be performed to diagnose this disease.
What is Meniere Disease?
Made up of 6 competencies aimed at preparing future nurses to have the knowledge, skill and attitudes necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems within which they work.
What is Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)?
These 3 cranial nerves are responsible for eye movement.
What is the Oculomotor nerve (CN III), the Trochlear nerve (CN IV), and the Abducens nerve (CN VI)?
This is often the first sign that a patient is beginning to neurologically decline.
What is a change in LOC?
Decreasing intraocular pressure (IOP) is important for many eye conditions, but especially so for this disease.
What is Glaucoma? (especially acute angle-closure glaucoma)
The most preventable cause of hearing loss and therefor warrants nursing intervention/teaching for.
What is loud noise exposure?
This nursing competency is all about advocating for patients and is supported by QSEN Patient-Centered Care.
What is Human Flourishing?