drexel nurs550 FINAL Questions and
100% Correct Answers | Grade A+
alert
Ans: patient awake and aware
level of consciousness
Ans: how aware the person is of their environment
lethargic
Ans: you must speak to the patient in a loud forceful manner to get a response
obtunded
Ans: you must shake a patient to get a response
stuporous
Ans: the patient is unarousable except by painful stimuli (sternal rub)
coma
,Ans: patient completely unarousable
short term memory
Ans: covers events or memories that occurred minutes to days before
long-term memory
Ans: covers events or memories that occurred months to years before
orientation
Ans: aware of person (who they are), place (where they are), and time (when is it)
perceptions
Ans: awareness of the objects in the environment to the five senses and their
interrelationships
thought processes
Ans: the logic, coherence, and relevance of a patient's thoughts as they lead to thoughts and
goals - HOW people think
insight
,Ans: awareness that thought, symptoms, or behaviors are normal or abnormal
ex: distinguishing that a daydream or hallucination is not real
judgement
Ans: process of comparing and evaluating different possible courses of action
affect
Ans: observable mood of a person expressed through facial expression, body movements,
voice
mood
Ans: sustained emotion of the paint
- euthymic (tranquil, normal), dysthmic (chronic form of depression, low mood), manic
(extreme elevation and high energy)
language
Ans: complex symbolic system for expressing hand written and verbal thoughts, emotion,
attention, and memory
higher cognitive functions
, Ans: level of intelligence, assessed by vocabulary, knowledge base, calculations, and
abstract thinking
fluency
Ans: involves the rate, flow, and melody of speech
hesitancies in speech
Ans: seen in patients with aphasia from strokes
monotone inflections
Ans: schizophrenia or severe depression
circumlocutions
Ans: words or phrases are substituted for the word a person cannot remember
paraphasias
Ans: words are malformed, wrong, or invented
circumstanttiality
100% Correct Answers | Grade A+
alert
Ans: patient awake and aware
level of consciousness
Ans: how aware the person is of their environment
lethargic
Ans: you must speak to the patient in a loud forceful manner to get a response
obtunded
Ans: you must shake a patient to get a response
stuporous
Ans: the patient is unarousable except by painful stimuli (sternal rub)
coma
,Ans: patient completely unarousable
short term memory
Ans: covers events or memories that occurred minutes to days before
long-term memory
Ans: covers events or memories that occurred months to years before
orientation
Ans: aware of person (who they are), place (where they are), and time (when is it)
perceptions
Ans: awareness of the objects in the environment to the five senses and their
interrelationships
thought processes
Ans: the logic, coherence, and relevance of a patient's thoughts as they lead to thoughts and
goals - HOW people think
insight
,Ans: awareness that thought, symptoms, or behaviors are normal or abnormal
ex: distinguishing that a daydream or hallucination is not real
judgement
Ans: process of comparing and evaluating different possible courses of action
affect
Ans: observable mood of a person expressed through facial expression, body movements,
voice
mood
Ans: sustained emotion of the paint
- euthymic (tranquil, normal), dysthmic (chronic form of depression, low mood), manic
(extreme elevation and high energy)
language
Ans: complex symbolic system for expressing hand written and verbal thoughts, emotion,
attention, and memory
higher cognitive functions
, Ans: level of intelligence, assessed by vocabulary, knowledge base, calculations, and
abstract thinking
fluency
Ans: involves the rate, flow, and melody of speech
hesitancies in speech
Ans: seen in patients with aphasia from strokes
monotone inflections
Ans: schizophrenia or severe depression
circumlocutions
Ans: words or phrases are substituted for the word a person cannot remember
paraphasias
Ans: words are malformed, wrong, or invented
circumstanttiality
