NSG 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Vital Signs, Etiology, Perseveration
2 Apr 2018
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System of irrelated abilities such as perception, reasoning, judgement,, intuition, and memory: allows one to be aware of oneself. Memory: facet of cognition, retaining and recalling past expereicnes. Delirium: acute cognitive impairment cause by medical condition (ex. Dementia: chronic, cognitive impairment, differentiated by cause, not symptoms. Dementia: alzheimer"s type: degenerative, progressive neuropsychiatric disorder that results in cognitive impairment, emotional and behavioral changes, physical and functional decline, and ultimately death, types, early onset (65 years and younger, late-onset (over 65) Sleep-wake disturbances (diminished rem sleep) - increased restlessness, irritability: activity and exercise (patient may be withdrawn, nutrition (may lose the ability to feed themselves, pain (in the early stages, patients can usually respond to questions regarding pain. Patient may confabulate (make up answers: language - progressively impaired, visuospatial impairment - deficits in tasks that require sensory and motor coordination, executive functioning - problem solving, as well as judgement and reasoning are affected, psychotic symptoms.
