Mental Status Examination: Awareness and Thought Processes
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What is the primary purpose of Gordon's Functional Health Patterns?

  • To develop a treatment plan for a client's health issues
  • To assess the client's coping mechanisms for stress
  • To identify the three types of health patterns in a person (correct)
  • To diagnose a client's underlying health conditions

    • What is an example of a functional pattern in a person?

  • High blood pressure
  • Coping with stressful situations (correct)
  • A risk condition for developing diabetes
  • Quitting smoking

    • What is the role of the nurse when identifying dysfunctional patterns in a client?

  • To diagnose the client's underlying health conditions
  • To develop a treatment plan for the client's health issues
  • To focus on the client's strengths and plan teaching accordingly (correct)
  • To identify the client's risk conditions for future health problems

    • What is an example of a potentially dysfunctional pattern in a person?

    <p>Being a pre-diabetic</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the goal of assessing a client's functional health patterns?

    <p>To understand the client's strengths and weaknesses</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the difference between dysfunctional and potentially dysfunctional patterns?

    <p>Dysfunctional patterns are present health issues, while potentially dysfunctional patterns are risk conditions for future health problems</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary focus of sensory awareness in the context of mental status examination?

    <p>External stimuli in the environment and their interrelationships</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What aspect of thought processes refers to the logic, coherence, and relevance of a person's thoughts?

    <p>Thought processes themselves</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary function of judgment in the context of mental status examination?

    <p>To compare and evaluate alternatives when deciding on a course of action</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the key feature that distinguishes insight from judgment?

    <p>The recognition of symptoms or disturbed behaviors as normal or abnormal</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary focus of the level of consciousness in the context of mental status examination?

    <p>The patient's awareness of their environment and internal stimuli</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the relationship between thought content and insight in the context of mental status examination?

    <p>Thought content refers to what a person thinks about, while insight refers to the awareness of the abnormality of those thoughts</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the emotional expression that is consistent with the mood?

    <p>Congruence</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of thought process involves verbalizations that shift from one unrelated topic to another?

    <p>Associative looseness</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the creation of nonsensical sounding words that only have meaning to the individual?

    <p>Neologisms</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of thinking is literal and lacks the ability to think abstractly?

    <p>Concrete thinking</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the outward emotional expression that is incompatible with the situation?

    <p>Inappropriate</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of thought process involves speaking in puns or rhymes; using words that sound alike but have different meanings?

    <p>Clang associations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of assessing a client's mental status?

    <p>To develop a plan of care</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is included in the assessment of violence risk?

    <p>Thoughts of harming others, lethality of the plan, and means to carry out the plan</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of asking about high-risk behaviors in a psychosocial assessment?

    <p>To identify the client's self-injurious behaviors</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is included in the abuse assessment?

    <p>History of physical harm, threats, and forced sexual contact</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a critical component of the mental status assessment?

    <p>Evaluating the client's mental functioning in all areas</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why is it important to assess a client's suicidal thoughts?

    <p>To evaluate the client's risk of harming themselves</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who introduced the task of measuring attentional disturbances in 1899?

    <p>Kraepelin</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary reason the subtraction version is the most commonly administered version?

    <p>It is perceived as more difficult than serial additions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of the Memory NEW LEARNING ABILITY task?

    <p>To determine if a patient can recall new information</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How many items were included in the 1942 version of the task?

    <p>14 items</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary focus of the Higher Cognitive Functions Information and Vocabulary task?

    <p>Evaluating a patient's understanding of complex ideas</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How long should a patient be given to recall the words in the Memory NEW LEARNING ABILITY task?

    <p>3-5 minutes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Functional Health Patterns

    • Gordon's Functional Health Patterns help identify three types of health patterns in a person: functional, dysfunctional, and potentially dysfunctional patterns
    • Functional patterns are strengths and powers of a client to overcome dysfunctional and potential dysfunctional patterns
    • Examples of functional patterns include how a person copes with stressful situations in daily life

    Dysfunctional Patterns

    • Dysfunctional patterns are concerns where the nurse identifies a problem in normal health patterns
    • Examples of dysfunctional patterns include high blood pressure
    • The nurse identifies the coping strengths of the client and plans teaching based on the strengths rather than nursing interventions

    Potentially Dysfunctional Patterns

    • Potentially dysfunctional patterns are risk conditions of a client that can develop in the future
    • Examples of potentially dysfunctional patterns include a pre-diabetic client at risk of developing diabetes

    Mental Status Examination

    • Level of Consciousness: awareness of the environment and internal stimuli
    • Thought Processes:
      • Logic, coherence, and relevance of the patient's thought
      • Content: what the patient thinks about, including level of insight and judgment
    • Judgment: process of comparing and evaluating alternatives when deciding on a course of action

    Emotions and Affect

    • Congruence with mood: outward emotional expression is consistent with mood
    • Constricted or blunted: minimal outward emotional expression
    • Flat: absence of outward emotional expression
    • Appropriate: outward emotional expression is expected in a certain situation
    • Inappropriate: outward emotional expression is incompatible with the situation

    Thought Processes: Form of Thought

    • Flight of ideas: verbalizations are continuous and rapid
    • Associative looseness: verbalizations shift from one unrelated topic to another
    • Circumstantiality: verbalizations are lengthy and tedious
    • Tangentiality: verbalizations are lengthy and tedious, and never reach an intended point
    • Clang associations: speaking in puns or rhymes
    • Concrete thinking: thinking is literal and elemental
    • Neologisms: making up nonsensical sounding words

    Psychosocial Assessment

    • Questions to ask to assess violence risk:
      • Thoughts of hurting oneself or others
      • Previous suicide attempts or plans
      • Means to carry out a plan
      • Intent to carry out a plan
      • Lethality of the plan
    • Questions to ask to assess abuse:
      • History of physical harm or threats from others
      • Forced sexual contact
      • History of abuse

    Mental Status Assessment

    • Gathering correct information about the client's mental status is essential for developing an appropriate plan of care
    • Components of mental status assessment:
      • Level of Consciousness
      • Thought Processes
      • Judgment
      • Emotions and Affect
      • Thought Content
      • Insight and Judgment

    Physical Examination

    • Mental Status Assessment is a description of all areas of the client's mental functioning

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