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1. Mental status is the total expression of:: Emotional response, mood, cognitive
functioning, and personality.
2. The cerebrum compromises:: 2 hemispheres that is divided into 2 lobes
3. Cerebral cortex houses:: Also known as gray outer layer houses higher mental
functions and is responsible for perception and behavior
4. Judgment and reasoning skills are explored by: How the patient is physically
and socially. Future plans. Solutions to hypothetical situations...what would you do
if police gave you a ticket?
5. Impaired judgment may indicate: intellectual disability, emotional disturbance,
frontal lobe injury, dementia, or psychosis
6. Dysphonia: disorder of voice; difficulty or discomfort in talking, with abnormal
pitch or volume, caused by laryngeal disease. voice sounds hoarse or whispered,
but articulation and language are intact.
7. abnormal articulation of speech: Imprecise pronunciation of consonants slur-
ring difficultly with sound of speech hesitation repetitions stuttering
8. Dysarthria: Is a motor speech disorder associated with the nervous system
related to strokes inebriation cerebral palsy Parkinson's
9. Comprehension exam: Follow one to Town step directions
10. Coherence: Patients intentions or perceptions clearly conveyed
11. The cerebrum compromises:: Limbic and reticular system
12. What disorders may affect cognitive development and mental status in
infants and children: Genetic, metabolic, and chromosomal disorders
13. Which finding is expected result of healthy aging and is associated with
memory and cognitive impairment: Decreased information of processing speed
accompanied by cognitive flexibility (ability to plan and develop strategies organize
concentrate and remember details.
14. A patient with anxiety would present with: Spend excessive time repeatedly
checking things
15. Which medication is associated with anxiety and depression: Steroids
16. What medication caused depression: Corticosteroids beta blockers
17. Intellectual maturation in adolescents continues with greater capacity for:-
: Information and vocabulary development, abstract thinking and judgement begins
to develop with education, intelligence, and experience.
18. Adolescents: Have the ability to develop theories logical reasoning make future
plans use generalization and consider risks and possibilities
19. Cognitive function declines in cognitive abilities when?: 60 or 70 years of
age
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20. Disorientation can have abrupt or insidious onset:: Intermittent, fluctuating,
or persistent associated with time of day or emotional crisis
21. Depression can be caused by:: Lifestyle changes, death, changes in physical
health
22. Anxiety: Sudden unexplained episodes of intense fear, worry, anxiousness,
panic without reason
23. anxiety: Spends excessive time repeatedly doing or checking things
24. Medications that can cause disorientation and confusion: Anticholinergics,
benzo, opioids, tricyclic anti depressants, levadopa or namenda, diuretics, dig, anti
arrhythmias, sedative, hypnotics, St. John's wart, gingko biloba
25. Past medical history: Helps assess mental status of a patient
26. Mental health assessment for children: Speech language behavior personal-
ity and learning difficulties
27. Mental health in children and infants: All brain neurons are present at birth in
a full term infant but Brian development continues with myelinization of nerve cells
over several years
28. Mental health assessment for adolescents:: Risk taking behaviors school
performance family interaction
29. Mental health assessment for older adults: Changes in Cognitive function
through process and daily activities
30. parietal lobe of cerebrum: Receives and processes sensory data
31. frontal lobe of cerebrum: Contains the motor cortex (broca area) responsible
for decision making problem solving ability to concentrate short term memory
associated with emotions drive affect self awareness and autonomic responses
related to emotional states
32. Which abnormality results due to disruption of Retic system: Altered mental
status
33. Which brain insult may cause permanent mental dysfunction: Zika virus
rubella trauma and metabolic imbalance
34. What element is present in family member would increase with the likeli-
hood of mental health condition of the patient: Autism
35. What examples of assessment mental health of a patient?: Do you have
history MS? Have you been coping with life stressors? Have you experienced
change in memory?
36. What meds cause disorientation and confusion.: Anticholinergics
37. Which medication class would the nurse include in mental health assess-
ment?: Opioids
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38. Which condition would a nurse suspect with a patient stuttering: Stroke
inebriation cerebral palsy Parkinson's
39. What is psych disorder of patent states he rained the rain brain: Clang
association
40. What psych disorder is known as made up words have only one meaning-
: Neologisms
41. What psych disorder is expression of meaningless disconnected words: -
Word salad
42. What psychiatric disorder is considered word substitution to avoid reveal-
ing a word was forgotten: Circumlocution
43. What psychiatric disorder is repetition of someone else word: Echolalia
44. What question would nurse ask to assess patient judgement: What would
you do if you found your neighbor mail in your box
45. What would cause unresponsive due to focal lesions in brain: Hematoma
infarct tumor abscess trauma hemorrhage
46. What do sired would nurse expect for drowning event: Diffuse brain disease
also includes seizures PE drug intoxicants pulmonary insufficiency hypo/hyperther-
mia myxedema, renal failure encephalitis meningitis
47. Inability to describe simple analogies: May indicate a lesion on the left or
dominant cerebral hemisphere
48. Abstract reasoning is assessed with cognitive abilities (fable or metaphor)-
: Inability to explain a phrase may indicate poor cognition dementia brain damage
or schizophrenia
49. What is concerning sign for inappropriate dress for seasoning: Grooming
50. What is concerning sign for docility hostility rage excessive irritability: -
Emotional status
51. What is concerning sign for slumped posture lack of facial expression: -
Nonverbal communication
52. What analytical skill would be evaluated when assessing peripheral neu-
ropathy: Drawing ability
53. What task would nurse perform for depression evaluation: Subtraction
54. What determines language comprehension: Ability to follow 2 step directions.
55. What would indicate aphasia: Speech rhythm disturbance omission of syllable
word transposition neologisms
56. temporal lobe functions: Responsible for perception and interpretation of
sounds - wernicke speech(allows person to understand spoken language) - behavior
emotion long term memory personality
57. limbic system: Mediates certain patterns of behavior to determine survival