Step 3

Question 1

What happens at step 3 ?

Answer 1

Mini mental test

Question 1

What does the mini mental test require ?

Answer 1

Asking a series of questions

Question 2

Running order of mini mental test?

Answer 2

Orientation
registration
attention
recall
language
repeat

Question 3

What should I do at orientation

Answer 3

Ask the patient;
- what day it is
what month it is
what year it is
where we are right now

Question 4

What happens during the registration phase

Answer 4

State 3 object
Apple
pen
table
Ask patient to repeat them

Question 5

What happens during the attention phase ?

Answer 5

Ask the patient to spell WORLD backwards

should spell DLROW

Question 6

What happens during recall

Answer 6

Ask the patient to state the three objects from the registration phase

Question 7

What happens at the language phase?

Answer 7

point at easy identifiable objects and ask the patient to state what it is?

Question 8

What happens at the repeat phase?

Answer 8

Ask the patient to precisely repeat a sentence - (this cannot include ifs, ands, and buts)

Sentence can be; The dog jumps over the fence