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| A person's emotional and congnitive funciton |
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| A person's mental status is inferred through |
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| assessment of individual behavior |
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| Awareness of one's own existence, feelings, and thoughts and awareness of the environment |
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| Using the voice to communicate one's thoughts and feelings |
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| Awareness of the objective world in relation to the self |
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| Both of these elements deal with prevailing feelings. |
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| The power of concentration, the ability to focus on one specific thing without being distracted |
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| The ability to note and store experiences and perceptions for later recall |
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| Pondering of a deeper meaning beyond the concrete and literal |
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| The way a person thinks, the logical train of thought |
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| What a person thinks; specific ideas, beliefs, and use of words |
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| Awareness of objects through any of the five senses |
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| Is a systematic check of emotional and cognitive functioning. |
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| Full mntal status examination |
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| What are the four main heading of mental status assessment? |
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A = Appearance
B = Behavior
C = Cognition
T = Thought processes |
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What do all the following have in common?
- Any known illness or health problem
- Current Medications
- Educational and behavioral levels
- Responses to personal history questions
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| Health Histories that could affect the interpretation of findings |
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- Posture and Position
- Body Movements
- Dress
- Grooming and Hygiene
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These are all:
- Level of Consciousness
- Facial Expression
- Speech
- Mood/Affect
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These are all part of:
- Orientation
- attention Span
- Recent Memory
- Remote Memory
- Judgment
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Within a 24 hour period
contents of evening meal |
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Past events
e.g., Birthdays, Anniversaries... |
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| A client that was unable to concentrate and stay focused on a single topic could have a : |
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| A client that knows where they are at and are familiar with the time of day are said to be: |
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| What a client says should be consistent and ____ |
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| A client that can not make sense of their words could have a problem with: |
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| What should you do when your client expresses feelings of sadness, hopelessness, despair or grief |
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| Screen for Suicical Thoughts |
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| This test includes a only 11 questions and yet it is useful for both initial and serial measurements |
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| The MiniMental State Examination |
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| The MiniMental State Examination concentrates only on: |
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| Cognitive Functioning, not on mood or thought processes |
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The normal score on a MiniMental State Examination is:
The Abnormal score that occur with dementia and delirium are: |
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27
18-23 mild impairment
0-17 severe impairment |
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| What are the levels of Consciousness |
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Alert
Lethargic
Obtunded
Stupor or Semi coma
Coma |
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Awake or readily aroused, oriented, fully aware
This level of consciousness is best Know as: |
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Not fully alert, drifts off to sleep when not stimulated, can be aroused to name when called in normal voice but looks drowsy
This level of consciousness is best Know as: |
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Sleeps most of the time, difficult to arouse, acts confused when aroused, speech may be mumbled and incoherent
This level of consciousness is best Know as: |
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Completely unconscious, makes no response to pain or to any external or internal stimuli
This level of consciousness is best Know as: |
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| Has clouding of consciousness, inattentive, makes incoherent conversation, has impaired recent memory and is confabulatory (false memories) for rescent events |
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| Acute Confusional State (Delirium) |
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