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Questions

1. What are the difference between Delirium and Alzheimer Dementia, causes, and treatments.

2. What classification of meds are used to treat clients with AD? How do they work and what are the side effects?

3. What can you do to maintain the safety of a client with severe Cognitive Impairment who is hospitalized?

4. Why is it important to maintain a consistent routine for a client with dementia? Best way to manage medication?

5. What are the signs and symptoms of AD? What are appropriate nursing interventions for clients as they go through the different stages of AD?

6. What are primary and secondary preventions for Cognitive Impairment?

7. What is sundowning and what can you do to care for this client?

8. What deficits are often seen in children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?

9. What would you expect to see as a newborn with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome goes through withdrawal? What nursing interventions are best for these infants?

10. What are some causes for Intellectual Disability?

11. How are mobility and cognition related? What does a person need to have for full cognitive function?

12. What could cause temporary cognitive impairment? How do you reverse it?

13. Who is at a highest risk for Cognitive Impairment?

14. How would you care for a child with an intellectual disability?

15. What are signs and symptoms for increased intracranial pressure?

16. What is Glasgow Coma scale used for and how do you score a patient?

17. What is considered a high ICP measurement and what do you need to do?

18. How do you care for a child with a TBI?

19. How do you manage a seizure once it begins?

20. Best way to diagnosis meningitis?

21. What are normal and elevated ICP measurements and how do you manage patients with increased intracranial pressure?

22. How do you assess a patient for a stroke?

23. What is the difference between decorticate and decerebrate posturing?

24. What are the signs for viral and bacterial meningitis? How would you treat it?

25. What is happening during Cushing's Triad?

26. Difference between left and right side stroke and how to care for that patient?

27. Difference between ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke and treatment?

28. What is a TIA? Interventions?

29. Is meningitis contagious and what can be done to prevent getting it?

30. What is used to treat patients with early onset dementia?

31. Interventions to help decrease ICP?

32. What is mannitol and why would it be given to a patient?

33. What is TPA?

34. What medications used to treat seizure disorders and their side effects?

35. Side effects of strokes?

36. What labs are important to monitor after a hemorrhagic stroke?