The nurse is providing teaching to a patient newly diagnosed with simple partial seizure disorder. Which statement by the nurse is most accurate?
a. "Your seizures will typically only affect one side of your body."
b. "Simple partial seizures may result in an alteration of consciousness."
c. "The simple partial seizure may cause motor impairment to begin in all of your extremities."
d. "Simple partial seizures are not treatable."
A
Simple partial seizures only involve one side of the brain and one side of the body. Complex par-tial seizures may or may not result in an alteration in level of consciousness. Generalized seizures affect both sides of the body. Simple partial seizures may respond to treatment.
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