NUR2459 Mental And Behavioral Health Nursing Questions And Answers Appearance (observed) ✅ Gait, posture, clothes, grooming Behavior (observed) ✅ Mannerisms, gestures, psychomotor activity, expression, eye contact, ability to follow commands/requests, compulsions Attitude (observed) ✅ Cooperative, hostile, open, secretive, evasive, suspicious, apathetic, easily distracted, focused, defensive Level of Consciousness (observed) ✅ Vigilant, alert, drowsy, lethargic, stuporous, asleep, comatose, confused, fluctuating orientation (inquired) ✅ What is your full name? Where are we at (floor, building, city, county, and state)? What is the full date today (date, month, year, day of the week, and season of year)? How would you describe the situation we are in? Speech and Language (observed) ✅ Quantity -talkative, spontaneous, expansive, paucity, poverty Rate -fast, slow, normal, pressured Volume (tone) -loud, soft, monotone, weak, strong Fluency and Rhythm -slurred speech, with appropriately placed inflections, hesitant, with good articulation, aphasic Mood (inquired) A sustained state of inner feeling ✅ How are your spirits? How are you feeling? Have you been discouraged/depressed/low/blue lately? Have you been energized/elated/high/out of control lately? Have you been angry/irritable/edgy lately? Affect (observed) An observed expression of inner feeling ✅ Appropriateness to situation, consistency with mood, congruency with thought content. Fluctuations -labile, even Range -Broad, restricted Intensity -Blunted, flat, normal intensity Quality -sad, angry, hostile, indifferent, euthymic, dysohoric, detached, elated, euphoric, anxious, animated , irritable. Thought Processes or Thought Form (inquired/observed) -logical, relevance, organization, flow, and coherence of thought in response to general questions during