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Neurological Conditions Question Paper
Neurological Conditions
Course:Bachelor Of Nursing Sciences
Institution: Nyeri Kenya Medical Training College question papers
Exam Year:2013
MEDICAL TRAINING COLLEGE-NYERI
DEPARTMENT OF NURSING
KRCHN SEPTEMBER 2011 CLASS (PRE-SERVICE)
END OF SEMESTER THREE EXAMINATION
DATE:26TH FEBRUARY 2013
NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATE
1.All questions are compulsory.
2.Read the questions carefully and answer only what is asked.
3.write your examination number on every sheet of paper provided.
4.Answer each section on separate sheet of papers provided.
5.For Part IMCQS.write the correct answer on the sheets provided.
6.Mobile cell-phones are NOTallowed in the EXAMINATION Room.
7.Omission of numbering of examination paper,questions,sections will result in 10% deduction of marks scored from the relevant part(s)
8.TIME: 1 HOUR
SECTION C:IMCQS QUESTIONS
Q.1. The disease which causes degeneration of neurons in the basal ganglia of the brain is:
a.Parkinson's disease
b.Gullian-Barre syndrome
c.Epilepsy
d.Bell's paisy
(1 mark)
Q.2.In which stage of epilpsey does the patient become uncoscious,rigid muscles,breathing arrested?
a.warning
b.tonic
c.clonic
d.coma
(1 mark)
Q.3.The injury of the spinal cord that causes bruising and bleeding is known as:
a.concussion
b.transaction
c.abrasion
d.contusion
(1 mark)
Q.4.The pathophysiology of multiple sclerosis is:
a.there is defect at the myoneural junction that impulses are not transmitted across to the muscles
b.abnormal blood vessels which form mass in or on the surface of the brain
c.affects the white matter of the brain and spinal cord involving conduction pathways
d.affects peripheral nerves mostly the heavily myelinated destroying myelin between the nodes then later damage the axons
(1 mark)
SECTION B: SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
Q.5.State 4 signs and symptoms of Gullian-Barre syndrome.
(4 marks)
Q.6.State 3 complications of meningitis. (3 marks)
SECTION C: LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS
Q.7.Outline 3 sources of infections that lead to brain abscess.
(3 marks)
Q.8.Describe the management of an epileptic fit.
(6 marks)
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