nurs 383 tusa test 1 with correct answers

nurs 383 tusa test 1 with correct
answers


delirium - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔acute cognitive impairment, sudden decline, medical
emergency, reversible if treated quickly, 25% pts don't survive.



cardinal symptoms of delirium - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔-disturbance in attention and
awareness

-develops during short period of time

-caused by general medical condition or substance induced

-problems with memory, orientation, language, visuospatial ability, perception



risk factors for delirium - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔- preexisting cognitive impairment

- severe illness

- age

-polypharmacy

-fracture

-depression

-impaired vision/hearing

-surgery

-stroke

-restraint use

-change in environment



Dementia - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔gradual loss of cognitive abilities, continual and
irreversible, alzheimers is most common kind (60-80%).

early onset 65yrs and younger/late onset 65 yrs and older

, Dementia risk factors - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔-first degree biological relatives of early onset
AD

-Cardiovascular disease

-Prior head injury

-poor nutrition



cognition - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔thinking, high level of processing, where info is used and
manipulated



memory - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔ability to recall or reproduce what has been learned or
experienced. to exercise judgement, make decisions, and be oriented to person, time, and place and
remember past experiences



Dementia etiology - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔-beta-amyloid plaques/senile plaques

-neurofibrillary tangles

-cell death of neurotransmitters

-deficient in Ach

-granulovascular degeneration



cardinal symptoms of dementia - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔-memory impairment

-agraphia

-aphasia

-apraxia

-agnosia

-disturbance in executive functioning



Agraphia - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔inability to write



aphasia - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔inability to speak