NUR 1600 Test 4 - 2. Intracranial regulation Answer Mechanisms or...

NUR 1600 Test 4

• Cognition

Answer Mental process of acquiring knowledge through thought, experience, and senses

• Intracranial regulation

Answer Mechanisms or conditions that impact intracranial pro- cessing and function.

Intracranial

those components that lie within the skull, which include the brain, circulatory system, and dura mater regulation

Compliance and maintenance of balance

• Family dynamics

Answer Interrelationships between and among family members or "the forces that work within a family that produce particular behaviors or symptoms.

• Optimal cognitive health

Answer the ability to clearly think, learn, and remember.

• Cognitive impairment

Answer Deficits in intellectual functioning; signifies observable or measurable disturbance in a cognitive process

• Preventive health activities 1 / 3

Answer

• Maintain a healthy lifestyle

Healthy diet, physical- ly active

• Stay connected with social activities
• Keep mind active
• Manage stress
• Heart Health = Brain - Health (manage blood pressure)
• Avoid substance abuse
• Avoid high-risk behaviors (to reduce chance of brain injury)

• Healthy People 2030 goals for TBI

Answer Targets to reduce fatal TBIs and improve post-injury activities

• USPSTF recommendations to prevent falls in community-dw adults

Answer

• Risk factors for TBI

Answer

• High-risk behaviors

• employment (military, law enforcement)
• falls
• assaults
• sports-related injuries
• driving while impaired

• crashes involving

Answer 2 / 3

motor vehicles, bike, pedestrians, recreational vehicles

• Levels of prevention for TBI

Answer Primary

• wear seatbelts/helmets
• don't drink/use substances and drive
• prevent falls (check environment, safety socks, call light within reach)
• proper safety equipment while playing sports

• firearm safety. secondary

• Intimate partner violence screening tool (WAST or HITS)
• elder abuse screening tools

• child abuse screening tools tertiary

• Will depend on extent of injury...may need hospitalization/surgery- rehabilitation

• Abnormal assessment findings with TBI (MILD)

Answer

• Headache

• nausea/vomiting
• drowsiness
• problems with speech
• dizziness
• change in vision/hearing
• sensitivity to light/sound
• may/may not have loss of consciousness
• concentration problems
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