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Cranial Nerve Practice uestions Check your understanding of assessing Cranial Nerves. Use your gwu.edu email below. This quiz can be taken multiple times. **These questions are pending copyright which means that they cannot be copied or reproduced for any other means than this original practice quiz. Anyone found copying or uploading these questions (or the likeness of these questions) to any other website or resource will be prosecuted.**

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Cranial Nerve Practice Questions

These questions are just for you to practice, but serve as a great tool to test your knowledge of Cranial Nerves!

Match the correct Cranial Nerve to the associated name or Roman Numeral. Abducens Hypoglossal

CN 4

CN 5

CN 6

CN 7

CN 9

CN 11

CN 12

Cranial Nerve Practice Questions

XI

IV

Trigeminal

Facial

IX

Match the normal finding of the associated Cranial Nerve. CN X

CN II

Spinal CN XII Trigeminal CN VII Trochlear Accessory

Tongue protrudes midline Sensory to light touch over face intact and symmetrical. Convergence symmetrical. Heart rate 78 and regular. Full lateral neck strength against resistance bilaterally. Mouth and forehead movement symmetric. Visual fields full to confrontation.

Correct answers CN X Tongue protrudes midline Convergence symmetrical.

CN II

Spinal Accessory

CN XII

Trigeminal

CN VII

Trochlear

Mouth and forehead movement symmetric.

Cranial Nerve Practice Questions

You are assessing the cranial nerves of this patient. What cranial nerve is showing a deficit in this picture?

Trigeminal Trochlear Abducens Facial

Cranial Nerve Practice Questions

Match the abnormal finding of the associated Cranial Nerve. * Oculomotor Facial Acoustic Olfactory Glossopharyngeal Trigeminal Asymmetry with phonation: No elevation of left palate. Ansomnia reported bilaterally. Unequal pupils. Unable to identify light touch on left side of forehead and cheek. Weber lateralizes to right. AC>BC. Asymmetric nasolabial folds with smiling.

Correct answers Oculomotor Ansomnia reported bilaterally. Weber lateralizes

Facial

Acoustic

Olfactory Glossopharyngeal Trigeminal

to right. AC>BC.

Cranial Nerve Practice Questions

What cranial nerve is the nurse testing in this picture?

CN XI CN IX CN V CN IV

Cranial Nerve Practice Questions

You are assessing the cranial nerves of this patient. What cranial nerve is showing a deficit in this picture?

Cranial nerve 9 Cranial nerve 10 Cranial nerve 11 Cranial nerve 12 Correct answer Cranial nerve 12

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Cranial Nerve Practice Questions

You are assessing the cranial nerves of this patient. What cranial nerve is showing a deficit in this picture?

Oculomotor Optic Trochlear Abducens Correct answer Oculomotor

Cranial Nerve Practice Questions (Last questions)

Alethia's story... Alethia, the new graduate nurse freshly off of orientation, walks into her patient's room and notices something is wrong with her patient. She notices his eyes do not look symmetrical and performs EOM testing....

Alethia is performing EOM testing on her patient. When the patient tracks her finger to test the left visual fields, she sees the right eye is tracking normally, but there is an abnormality of the patient's left eye. What cranial nerve is showing a deficiency in this picture?

3 4 6 Correct answer 6

Alethia considers her patient's new findings in addition to the patient complaining of sudden diplopia and severe headache. What is the NEXT BEST action for Alethia to take?

Call radiology to have a CT scan STAT (CT= computed tomography) Call the Rapid Response Team and designate a "Stroke Alert" Call the attending physician to give an update on the patient's status Call the charge nurse and ask them to double-check your findings Correct answer Call the Rapid Response Team and designate a "Stroke Alert"

Feedback Sudden severe headache, diplopia, and abnormal cranial nerve exam all suggest a potential stroke; time is crucial. Calling a RRT- Stroke Alert will ensure the patient gets the most timely and ecient care. Calling the attending physician or charge nurse will delay patient care- trust your assessment! Ordering a CT scan is outside the scope of a nurse. RRT- Stroke Alert

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