In Review of a Nursing Home Patient's Chart,the Nurse Practitioner

question 11

Multiple Choice

In review of a nursing home patient's chart,the nurse practitioner discovers that the neurology consult identified that the client has a homonymous hemianopsia.Which of the following statements accurately describes these findings?

• A) Partial loss of visual acuity in the ipsilateral peripheral fields
• B) Diplopia in the eye contralateral to the cerebral lesion
• C) Loss of vision in either the right or left halves of the visual fields
• D) Nystagmus in both eyes with asymmetrical movement

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