Nursing 2000: Exam 2 Flashcards
Responsible for a person’s mental status
Cerebrum
Perception and Behavior
Cerebral Cortex
Frontal Lobe is Responsible for…
- Short term memory
- Expression of Emotion
- Decision making and problem solving
Regions of the Brain
- Parietal Lobe
- Temporal Lobe
- Limbic System
- Reticular Activating System (RAS)
Lobe responsible for sensory data
Parietal Lobe
Lobe responsible for sounds and Long term memory
Temporal Lobe
Responsible for survival behaviors and emotions
Limbic System
Responsible for awareness and arousal
Reticular Activating System (RAS)
What do we want to know about the present illness with Neuro?
- Change of behavior
- Anxiety
- Depression
What do we want to know about a patient’s past medical history with Neuro?
- Neurological Disorders
- Psychiatric Disorders
- Medication Use
- Can score up to a 31
- A score of 21 or less warrants further evaluation
Mini-Mental Exam
What do we want to know about family history with Neuro?
- Psychiatric Disorders and mental illness
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Learning Disorders
- Intellectual Disability
Used to measure a person’s level of consciousness or alertness
Glascow Coma Scale
Components of a Mental Exam
- Level of consciousness
- Behavior and Appearance
- Language
- memory
- Knowledge
- Abstract thinking
- Association
- Judgement
Level of Consciousness: Alert and Oriented
- Person
- Place
- Time
- Situation
Behavior and Appearance
- Mood
- Hygiene
- Body Language
Affects person’s ability to understand and express language
Aphasia
2 types of language
Sensory (receptive) and Motor (Expressive)
2 types of Memory
Recent and Remote Memory
Components of Recent Memory
- Short term
- Name unrelated objective
- Recall 3 words or series of numbers
Components of Remote Memory
- Long term
- Recall mother’s maiden
- An event in history
- Birthday
Components of Delirium
- Acute
- Sudden short development
- Medical condition link
- Impairs consciousness
- Potentially reversible
- Perform GCS
Components of Dementia
- Chronic
- Insidious Progressive
- Structural brain disease
- Impairs judgement, memory and thought patterns
More components of Memory
- Knowledge
- Abstract
- Association
- Judgement
Components of Sensory Function
- Pain
- Temperature
- Position
- Vibration
- Touch