Nursing 3920A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Psychomotor Agitation, Vascular Dementia, Dementia
1 Apr 2016
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If the quesion ever says select all that apply" (even on the nclex), the answer will always be more than 1. Just because the professional is a denist doesn"t mean that they wouldn"t noice. Russell"s sign on the hands (they have medical training just like doctors, but specialize in teeth) Do they have some kind of cogniive decline/demenia?: if we know that they aren"t usually like that, we can look for a physiological reason for their confusion (medicaion, brain injury, in children: fever oten caused by infecion) When someone presents with confusion, we should treat them as delirious, not demented: someimes we will look at an older person and think they have demenia, when really it is a physiological problem. Demenia doesn"t come on quickly it happens gradually (not within a couple of hours or days) It is the most common hospitalizaion in elderly paients. It should be considered an emergency. (they should be sent to the hospital)
