Tests
Test for person's ability to lay down new memories
The Four Unrelated Words Test; wait 30 mins for recall
When a person can hear sounds and words but can't relate them to previous experiences; speech is fluent, effortless and well articulated but has many paraphasias (malformed or wrong words) and neologisms (made up words).
Wernicke's (receptive aphasia)
Repetitive behaviors, such as handwashing, are behaviors that the person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession, aimed at preventing or reducing distress.
Cumpulsive disorder
The amount of standard drinks that result in 0.08 BAC?
3 standard drinks
What proof must be present for you to report elder abuse?
All that needs to be present is a suspicion
You ask the patient to draw a clock with the time of 2:15, they draw an abnormal drawing of clock and the wrong time. What test is this and what does it indicate?
Mini-Cog; cognitive impairment (often for dementia)
A person imitates another's words, often with a mumbling, mocking or mechanical tone
Echolalia
Acute confusional change or loss of consciousness and perceptual disturbance
Delirium
Measurement of Nausea/Vomiting, Tremor, Paroxysmal sweats, Anxiety, Agitation, Tactile Disturbances and Auditory Disturbances is an assessment withdrawal from?
Alcohol
A wound produced by tearing or splitting of body tissue
Laceration
Four main headings in Mental Status Assessment
Appearance, Behavior, Cognition, and thought process
(ABCT)
Disturbance in consciousness, change in cognition, develops over a short period of time, may be due to systemic problems or substance abuse
delirium
Gradual, progressive process, causing decreased cognitive function even though the patient is fully conscious and awake
dementia
Patient presents with pupillary dilation, euphoria, pacing, grandiosity, sweating and chills; symptoms are consistent with?
Cocaine
Documentation of IPV and elder abuse should include
Photographic documentation of injuries
Additional testing for patients with aphasia
Word comprehension, Reading, Writing
Damage to frontal lobe that causes labored, halting speech and trouble forming words, though comprehension is mostly intact
Broca's Aphasia (expressive)
Reflexes, cranial nerve function, sensory function, motor function, mental health status
Five Parts of Neurological Assessment
These occur within one week of cessation from alcohol and present as coarse irregular tremor, marked autonomic hyperactivity; vivid hallucinations, delusions, agitated behavior and fever
Delirium tremens
This color of bruise indicates on that is less than 2 hours old.
Red
Test to assess anxiety
GAD-7
Mild damage causing ongoing trouble finding the correct names for specific objects, people, or words despite using otherwise correct grammar
Anomic Aphasia
complete loss of consciousness, no voluntary movement, unresponsive to verbal and painful stimuli
comatose
Amount of nicotine in 1 JUUL pod is equivalent to this amount of traditional cigarettes
20
The best way to document an injury to a child
Use the words the child has said to describe it