NURS 3554 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mental Status Examination, Nursing Process, Dementia
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Chapter 7 - the nursing process and standards of care for psychiatric mental health nursing. Purpose: important part of the clinical assessment process in psychiatric nursing. A structure way of observing and describing a patient"s current state of mind, Mini mental status exam appearance, attitude, behavior, mood and affect, speech, thought process, thought content, perception, cognition, insight and judgment. The client is a 33-year-old married woman who is morbidly obese. She is cooperative with the interviewer and is judged to be an adequate historian. Her mood and affect are depressed and anxious. Her flow of thought is coherent and her thought content reveals feelings of low self-esteem as well as auditory hallucinations that are self- demeaning. She admits to suicidal ideas but denies active plan or intent. She knows the current date, place, and person. The client shows some insight and judgment regarding her illness and need for help. diagnosis) restriction through nursing interventions.
