Chapter 5 - Mental Status Assessment

Question 1

______ is a person’s emotional and cognitive functioning

Answer 1

Mental status

Question 2

The nurse understands that all of the following are components of the mental status assessment except?

1. Known illness or health problem
2. Current medications known to affect mood or cognition
3. Cultural background
4. Personal history; current stress, social habits, sleep habits, and drug and alcohol use

Answer 2

3

Question 3

A _____ is a significant behavioral or psychological pattern associated with:

• Distress, a painful symptom
• Disability, impaired functioning
• Signifcant risk of pain, disability, or death, or a loss of freedom

Answer 3

Mental disorder

Question 4

_____ disorders are due to a brain disease of known organic cause (e.g. delirium, alcohol and drug intoxication and withdraw)

Answer 4

Organic

Question 5

_______ is an organic etiology that has not been established and mental status assessment documents a dysfunction and determines how that dysfunction affects self-care in everyday life

Answer 5

Psychiatric mental illness

Question 6

Mental status cannot be scrutinized directly like the characteristics of skin or heart sounds. It’s functioning is inferred through assessment of an individuals ______

Answer 6

behaviors

Consciousness

Language

Mood and affect

Orientation

Attention

Memory

Abstract reasoning

Thought process

Thought cocntent

Perceptions

Question 7

______ and _____ are difficult to separate and trace the development of just one aspect of mental status in them because all aspects are interdependent

Answer 7

Infants and children

Question 8

_____ adulthood contains more potential for losses

Greif and despair surrounding these losses can affect mental status and can result in disability, disorientation, or depression

Chronic diseases such as heart failure, cancer, diabetes, and osteoporosis include fear of loss of life

Answer 8

Aging adults