Nursing 3920A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Vitamin B12, Cardiac Arrhythmia, Dsm-5
24 Apr 2018
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Goals: develop understanding of the effects of these health challenges on the client and family, discuss therapeutic approaches and nursing care for clients and their family. Explore similarities & differences of dementia, delirium and depression. The 3 ds of confusion: delirium, depression, dementia. When caring for an elderly client who is confused ask yourself is it dementia? delirium? or depression: always consider that it may be infection. Infection such as a uti or pneumonia may be present in the elderly with no signs except for a change in. Classic signs and symptoms of illness in the elderly are often mild, obscured or nonexistent. Some are deceptive for example, crushing chest pain is a cardinal sign for an mi, but in the older adult with a mi, this may present as only mild pain or acute fatigue. Practice questions: delirium is the most common complication of hospitalization in elderly clients, delirium is associated with increased morbidity and mortality.
