HA FINAL UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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HA FINA
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HA FINA
HA FINAL UPDATED Exam Questions
and CORRECT Answers
CHAPTER 5 - CORRECT ANSWER- mental status assessment
mental status - CORRECT ANSWER- a person's emotional and cognitive functioning
mental disorder - CORRECT ANSWER- significant behavioral or psychological pattern
associated with the follow...
HA FINAL UPDATED Exam Questions
and CORRECT Answers
CHAPTER 5 - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔mental status assessment
mental status - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a person's emotional and cognitive functioning
mental disorder - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔significant behavioral or psychological pattern
associated with the following:
- distress, a painful symptom
- disability, impaired functioning
- significant risk of pain, disability, or death, or a loss of freedom
general survey - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔physical appearance, body structure, mobility,
behavior
(pA, Bs, M, B) ... ABMB
defining mental status - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔consciousness, language, mood and
affect, orientation, attention, memory, abstract reasoning, thought process, thought content,
perceptions
aging adults mental status - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔no decrease in general
knowledge/vocab; response time may be slower; recent memory decreased but remote
memory not; some sensory loss; confusion is common
components of mental status examination (ABCT) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- appearance
- behavior
- cognition
- thought processes
, when is a full mental status exam necessary? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔1) patients whose
initial screening suggests an anxiety disorder or depression
2) behavioral changes, such as memory loss, inappropriate social interaction
3) brain lesions: trauma, tumor, cerebrovascular accident or stroke
4) aphasia: impairment of language ability secondary to brain damage
5) symptoms of psychiatric mental illness, especially with acute onset
physical appearance - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔posture, body movements, dress, grooming
and hygiene
behavior - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔level of consciousness, facial expression, speech,
mood and affect
aphasia - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔impairment of language, usually caused by left
hemisphere damage either to Broca's area (impairing speaking) or to Wernicke's area
(impairing understanding).
expressive aphasia - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔the inability to produce language (despite
being able to understand language)
receptive aphasia - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔inability to understand spoken or written
words
orientation - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔awareness of the objective world in relation to the
self; aging adults may be considered oriented if they know where they are, who they are,
what time period it is
screening for anxiety and depression - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔use the questionnaires
*anxiety it is the GAD-7 and for depression it is PHQ-9*
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