The nursing instructor teaches the student nurses about the autonomic nervous system. The instructor determines that learning has occurred when the students make which statement(s)?
1. The sympathetic and parasympathetic systems are not always opposite in their effects.
2. The parasympathetic nervous system is the fight-or-flight response.
3. Sympathetic stimulation causes dilation of arterioles.
4. The parasympathetic nervous system causes bronchial constriction.
5. The sympathetic nervous system is activated under stress.
Question 2
The student nurse asks the nursing instructor, Do the medications we are studying actually make more neurotransmitters? What is the best response by the nursing instructor?
1. No, but medications can heal diseases of the autonomic nervous system.
2. Yes, some of the newer medications are very good at doing this.
3. Yes, but the newer drugs that do this have some serious side effects.
4. No, medications can only increase or decrease the action of neurotransmitters.
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