NSE 13A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mental Status Examination, Mental Health Nurse, Ready To Die
18 Dec 2018
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Capacity to feel, think, express emotions, and behave in ways that enhance personal capacity to manage challenges, adapt successfully to a range of demands and enjoy life (pg. 83: emotional and cognitive functioning, mental disorder/mental illness, diagnosis based on the dsm-v (diagnostic and statistics manual of mental. Disorders: alterations in thoughts, experience, emotion causing distress and impaired functioning (affecting behavior, relationships, job performance) Cognition/cognitive functioning: consciousness, orientation, memory, attention and concentration, comprehension and abstract reasoning. How do you usually feel: flat affect, depression, depersonalization, elation, euphoria, anxiety, mental status assessment (3) cognitive function, level of orientation, person, place and time, attention span, new learning test 4 unrelated words test. Immediate, recent and remote memory: remember them and repeat them, 5, 10, & 30 minutes, 3-4 words remembered, mental status assessment (4) thinking. Aphasia: word comprehension, reading, writing, mental status assessment (4) thinking. Insight: recognize one"s illness, treatment and consequences.
