Cognitive Development
This Piaget stage occurs from birth to age 2, with infant learning about themselves and others
What is the Sensorimotor Stage?
This quick assessment tool is commonly used to screen for cognitive impairment.
What is the Mini-Cog?
This physiological problem can decrease cognitive function by reducing oxygen delivery to the brain
What is hypoxia?
This term refers to a person's internal emotional state.
What is mood?
Children in this stage develop language and engage in imaginative play
What is the Preoperational Stage?
A nurse assessing cognition should evaluate orientation to these four areas.
What are person, place, time, and situation?
Imbalances of sodium and potassium caused by this condition may lead to confusion.
What is dehydration?
Nurses assess these four characteristics of affect
What are range, intensity, appropriateness, and congruence?
This stage is characterized by logical thinking and deductive reasoning about concrete situations.
What is the Concrete Operational Stage?
Forgetting recent events but remembering childhood experiences demonstrates impairment of this type of memory.
What is short-term memory?
Chronic abuse of these substances can alter brain pathways and impair cognition
What are drugs and alcohol
During assessment, a patient reports feeling joyful but appears tearful, withdrawn, and reluctant to engage. The nurse should interpret this as?
What is incongruence between mood and affect?
The ability to formulate hypotheses and think abstractly develops in this stage.
What is the Formal Operational Stage?
A patient's inability to do ADL's places them at risk for this nursing problem
What is risk for injury?
Reduced blood flow to tissues can impair cognition due to inadequate gas exchange.
What is decreased perfusion?
A patient is very agitated, but excited, hasn't slept in 3 days, has just bought 4 cars and a second house with no job. The nurse determines the patient is in a phase of mania from what disease process
Bipolar 1
The stage which includes 7 yrs and up and includes
What is
What is the first assessment a nurse should do when doing a cognitive evaluation?
What is evaluating sensory status
An older adult who is isolated from family and social interaction may experience cognitive decline related to a lack of:
: What is social stimulation?
A patient reports feeling sad, hopeless, fatigued, has difficulty concentrating, and no longer enjoys activities they once loved. The nurse recognizes these findings as most consistent with this mood disorder.
What is Depression