The nurse instructs a group of nursing students that the pathologic changes that occur in the brain of a person with dementia of Alzheimer's disease include
a. abnormal accumulation of proteins.
b. damage to the myelin sheath of neurons.
c. destruction of neurons.
d. increase in production of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).
A
The neuritic plaque is a cluster of degenerating nerve terminals, both dendritic and axonal, that contains amyloid protein.
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a. Established a national geriatric nursing group b. Defined educational standards for geron-tology c. Created the ANA Division of Geriatric Nursing d. Formed the Council of Long Term Care Nurses
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A. Deliverance B. Physical healing C. Inner healing D. Spiritual healing
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a. A sudden illness from which a person is expected to recover. b. An ongoing illness for which there is no known cure. c. An illness that is slow or gradual in onset. d. An illness for which there is no reasonable expectation of recovery.
If an immature child presents to the clinic with point tenderness over the distal physis of the wrist or ankle, but negative fracture by X-ray report or observation of films, your knowledge of the Salter-Harris fracture classification would identify
which of the following fractures? 1. Salter Harris I 2. Salter Harris II 3. Salter Harris III 4. Salter Harris IV