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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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Answer to Question 1

Correct Answer: 1,4,5
Rationale: The parasympathetic nervous system causes bronchial constriction. The sympathetic and parasympathetic systems are not always opposite in their effects. The sympathetic nervous system is activated under stress. The parasympathetic nervous system is the rest-and-digest response. Sympathetic stimulation causes constriction of arterioles.

Answer to Question 2

Correct Answer: 4
Rationale: Medications cannot manufacture new neurotransmitters, they can only increase or decrease their action. There are virtually no diseases of the autonomic nervous system to heal. Even the newest medications cannot manufacture new neurotransmitters. Medications cannot manufacture new neurotransmitters, even if they have serious side effects.





 

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