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NUR 211 ( LATEST 2024 / 2025 ) EXAM 3 | ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
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NUR 211 ( LATEST 2024 / 2025 ) EXAM 3 | ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
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NUR 211 Exam 31. Definition of cognition
Answer
The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding though thought,
experience and the senses.
2. Scope of Cognition
Answer
Basic
perception, pattern, attention
HIGHER ORDER
learning, insight, problem solving, reason
3. Level of Conciousness
Answer
the way that a person is alert, oriented, attends ques- tions and responds appropriately
4. Orientations x3
Answer
Time
know when they are Place
know where they are
Person
know who they are and others are
5. Sundowning**
Answer
becoming restless and agitated in the late afternoon, evening, or night
,6. aphasia
Answer
impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Broca's area or to
Wernicke's area
can be inability to communicate or inability to understand words.
7. anomia
Answer
Loss of the ability to name objects or retrieve names of people
8. apraxia
Answer
forgetting how to perform activities
9. agnosia
Answer
the inability to recognize familiar objects.
10. cause of delirium**
Answer
polypharmacy
drug/drug interactions diseases
Strokes
11. CAM tool**
Answer
Confusion Assessment Method
12. What is CAM used for?**
Answer
tool used to help diagnose delirium.
, 13. Who do we assess with the Confusion assessment tool?**
Answer
any older person who appears confused/disoriented or has a change in behavior or loss of
concious- ness
14. Delirium**
Answer
a sudden deterioration in behavior, cognition, function.
15. Assessment for delirium**
Answer
Confusion Assessment Method (CAM)
16. Intervention for Delirium?**
Answer
antibiotics for infection, IV Hydration and supplements to resolve imbalance decrease sensory
overload
stop/change medication
17. prevention of delirium
Answer
Address proper medical care for illness Proper hydration
Proper medication use decrease external stimuation
18. Assessment for Dementia**
Answer
History Self Report
Mini Mental State Exam Mini-Cog
CAM
19. Cause of Dementia
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