Practice Question
A nurse is caring for a client who has had a stroke involving the right hemisphere. Which of the following alterations in function should the nurse expect?
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Correct Answer:
Inability to recognize his family members
Rationale:
🧠 A right hemisphere stroke primarily affects perception, spatial awareness, and visual recognition, not language centers.
🧠 Prosopagnosia (inability to recognize familiar faces, including family members) is a common perceptual deficit with right-brain involvement.
🧠 The right hemisphere also controls visual-spatial skills, attention, and judgment, which may lead to neglect of the left side of the body or environment.
🧠 Aphasia and difficulty reading are more commonly associated with left hemisphere strokes, which involve language centers (Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas).
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