Mental Status
Appearance, Behavior, Cognition, and Thought (A,B,C,T)
What are components of a mental status exam?
Pain, history of illness/injury, and reason for seeking care or examples of this.
What is subjective data?
Looking with a purpose
What is inpsection?
Providing privacy, comfort, maintaining eye contact, and removing distractions.
What are examples of communication facilitators?
The tendency to view your own culture/way of life as the most desirable.
Ethnocentrism
Level of consciousness where patient is not fully alert, is drowsy, will drift off to sleep if not being stimulated.
What is lethargic/somnolent?
location, character, severity, timing, aggravating/alleviating factors
What is details/descriptors of pain?
or
What is parts of pain assessment?
Assessment technique that utilizes the hands to assess temperature, moisture, size, swelling, and tenderness.
What is palpation?
Posture, facial expression, touch, physical appearance, and eye contact.
What are non-verbal communication cues?
Voodoo and witchcraft are examples of this type of belief/cause of health and illness?
What is magico-religious?
Have you ever thought of harming yourself or others?
What is suicidal screening?
ADL is an acronym for this.
What is activities of daily living?
Utilizing vibration and sound to assess underlying structures.
What is percussion?
A question that requires mores that a yes/no response, allows the patient to express more information.
What is open-ended question?
ROS
Developments Test for children birth-6 yrs old
What is Denver II?
PQRSTU
What is acronym for pain assessment?
(provoking, quality, region, severity, timing, understanding patient perception)
Assessment technique utilizing a stethoscope.
What is auscultation?
Silence, Clarification, Empathy, and Facilitation
What are examples of communication techniques?
Alert, lethargic, comatose
What is examples of level of consciousness?
Components of this assessment include 3-item recall test and clock drawing test.
What is Mini-Cog?
Adolescent assessment tool
What is HEADSSS assessment?
Assessment technique used most frequently.
What is inspection?
Using medical jargon, interrupting, leading questions, and providing false reassurance
What are interviewing traps?
How a person thinks.
What is thought process?