You perform a bedside aphasia evaluation and find the following:   Discourse sample – Western Aphasia Battery – Revised Picnic Scene verbal Picture Description: “The tripty went to the sprast and you can see a shamalot. And then over here there’s a man frinking something from that bramentans.”   Following auditory one-step directions:  1/5 Word Repetition: 1/5 Object naming: 0/5   What type of aphasia are these results suggestive of and why? Please answer in 1-3 complete sentences.

According to the linguistic deficit hypothesis, aphasia is due to…

You perform an assessment of reading and find the following:   Oral reading of pseudowords: 4/5 Oral reading of real words: 1/5   What type of central alexia are these data suggestive of and why? Which route is damaged? Please answer in 1-3 complete sentences.

All presentations of aphasia are easily classifiable in the traditional classification system.

What is the most common cause of aphasia? (a one-word answer is sufficient)

Distorted sounds and distorted sound substitutions are characteristic of…

Match the cerebral artery to the regions it supplies. Each answer in the dropdown menu is used only one time.

A client with osteomyelitis is receiving long-term IV antibiotic therapy. The nurse should monitor for which complication requiring immediate intervention?

A client with Parkinsons Disease is prescribed levodopa/carbidopa. The nurse should instruct the client to:

A client presents with a sudden “worst headache of my life,” photophobia, and a positive Kernigs sign. The nurse suspects a subarachnoid hemorrhage. What is the most critical intervention?