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WITH 100% RATED CORRECT ANSWERS | 2025 LATEST UPDATED |

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What questions do you ask a patient with a chief complaint of a mood disorder? -
(answers)abrupt or insidious onset, medications, associated health problems, and associated
symptoms.



What are some questions to ask for an HPI of depression? - (answers)any troubling thoughts or
feelings, constant worry/ change in outlook on life of change in feelings, low energy level,
agitation, thought or plans for hurting self and/or others, medications (antidepressants, steroids,
beta-blockers, CCB, barbiturates, phenytoin, anabolic steroids).



What are some questions to ask for an HPI of anxiety? - (answers)any sudden, unexplained
episodes of intense fear, anxiety or panic for no apparent reason. Feels uncomfortable around
people. Prior experience with a frightening or traumatic event. Panic attack, obsessive thoughts,
or compulsive behaviors. 你是想要一篇“眼睛容易阅读
的”中文文章

What are the objective data that you collect when assessing the patient's mental health in primary
care? - (answers)voice quality, memory, attention span, judgment, grooming, body language, and
comprehension.


What is the difference between a patient's mood and affect with a diagnosis of dementia or
delirium. - (answers)with delerium their mood and affect includes rapid mood swings, fearful
and suspicious. Dementia patients are depressed, apathetic, and uninterested.



Name four differences between dementia and delirium. - (answers)Delerium the onset is sudden,
with dementia it is insidious and relentless. Delirium causes misperceptions, illusions,
hallucinations, and delusion. Dementia usually does not include misperceptions or
hallucinations. Delirium can be reversible and dementia is not. Delirium is associated with
infections, medications, MODS, or brain injury. Dementia is usually related to structural diseases
of the brain.

, How can you assess/test a patient's immediate recall or new learning? - (answers)ask the patient
to listen and repeat a sentence or a series of numbers. 5-8 numbers forward or 4-6 numbers
backward can usually be repeated.



How can you assess/test a patient's recent memory? - (answers)give the patient four objects to
remember and ask them about them in 10 minutes. They should be able to name them all.



How can you assess/test a patient's remote memory? - (answers)Ask them about verifiable past
events such as mother's maiden name, high school, or a subject of common knowledge.


What does loss of immediate and recent memory with retention of remote memory suggest? -
(answers)dementia.



What are the main ways to test cognition? - (answers)analogies, abstract reasoning, arithmetic
calculation, writing ability, execution of motor skills, memory, attention span, and juddgment.
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What are the main ways to test speech and language skills? - (answers)voice quality, articulation,
comprehension, coherence.



What are the main ways to test emotional stability? - (answers)mood and feelings, thought
process and content, and perceptual distortions and hallucinations.



Give an example of an analogy and what does it test? - (answers)what is similar about objects
and it tests cognitive abilities.


Give an example of how to test abstract reasoning. - (answers)have the patient tell you the
meaning a fable, proverb, or metaphor. A rolling stone gathers no moss. Tests cognition.


What does an inadequate interpretation of abstract reasoning point to? - (answers)poor cognition,
dementia, brain damage, or schizophrenia.

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