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lak

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The nurse is caring for an 85-year-old patient who has been on bed rest for a fractured hip. The nurse finds that the patient is flushed, has a temperature of 100 F, a pulse of 100, and respiratory rate of 24 .

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During a physical assessment of the neurologic system, the nurse checks the patient's __________, which is built into the nervous system and does not need the intervention of con-scious thought to take place.
 
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Reply #1 on: Jun 25, 2018
Answer to Question 1



Answer to Question 2

reflex

A reflex is an automatic response (an action or movement) that is built into the nervous system and does not need the intervention of conscious thought to take place. (The knee jerk is an ex-ample of the simplest type of reflex.)


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