WGU D118 LATEST EXAMS TEST PAPER QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What is an example of mild cognitive impairment? - ✔✔losing items, having difficulty
with words (normal part of aging)
✔✔What is the condition that result of an abnormal shrinkage in the brain and the
buildup of plaque within the brain? - ✔✔Alzheimer's
✔✔What condition results from a stroke or transient ischemic attacks (TIA or mini-
stroke) that causes damage to the brain and tissue around the area of the stroke -
✔✔vascular dementia
✔✔Dementia with lewy bodies, patient behavior? - ✔✔problematic behaviors,
aggression, vivid hallucinations, and sleep disorders
✔✔What disease is known as the early onset dementia? - ✔✔frontotemporal dementia
✔✔When do patients show signs of frontotemporal dementia? - ✔✔40-60 years old
✔✔What is a common side effect of frontotemporal dementia? - ✔✔involuntary sexually
inappropriate behaviors
, ✔✔What does a patient with mixed dementia have? - ✔✔alzheimers and vascular
dementia
✔✔What are the 3 Ds for older adults-neurocognitive disorder - ✔✔depression, delirium,
dementia
✔✔Two of the most common scales used to assess older adults - ✔✔Karnofsky
Performance Scale (KPS) and the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) scale
✔✔What are the five parameters that both assessment scales use? - ✔✔fluid/food
intake, ability to care for self, ability to engage in activities, ability to ambulate, and level
of consciousness
✔✔KPS is often used for? - ✔✔determining eligibility to hospice
✔✔ECOG is often used for? - ✔✔determining if chemo is appropriate for patient
✔✔What are examples of reversible conditions that can cause memory loss? -
✔✔cardiac arrhythmias, high cholesterol, and high BP
✔✔What are the two assessments for dementia? - ✔✔mini-mental status exam,
montreal cognitive assessment
✔✔Two weaknesses of this assessment include (mini mental status exam) - ✔✔inability
to differentiate dementia types and its inability to detect the early stages of memory
loss.
✔✔What is the SPICES assessment tool? - ✔✔sleep disorders
problem eating
incontinence
confusion
evidence of falls
skin breakdown
✔✔theory of motivation that identifies three psychological needs of all individuals:
autonomy, relatedness, and competence (CIT). - ✔✔self determination theory
✔✔What is the universal desire to interact with others in a connected way that provides
a sense of the individual caring for others and others caring for the individual. -
✔✔relatedness
✔✔What is the desire to control outcomes and experience mastery over one's own life. -
✔✔competence
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What is an example of mild cognitive impairment? - ✔✔losing items, having difficulty
with words (normal part of aging)
✔✔What is the condition that result of an abnormal shrinkage in the brain and the
buildup of plaque within the brain? - ✔✔Alzheimer's
✔✔What condition results from a stroke or transient ischemic attacks (TIA or mini-
stroke) that causes damage to the brain and tissue around the area of the stroke -
✔✔vascular dementia
✔✔Dementia with lewy bodies, patient behavior? - ✔✔problematic behaviors,
aggression, vivid hallucinations, and sleep disorders
✔✔What disease is known as the early onset dementia? - ✔✔frontotemporal dementia
✔✔When do patients show signs of frontotemporal dementia? - ✔✔40-60 years old
✔✔What is a common side effect of frontotemporal dementia? - ✔✔involuntary sexually
inappropriate behaviors
, ✔✔What does a patient with mixed dementia have? - ✔✔alzheimers and vascular
dementia
✔✔What are the 3 Ds for older adults-neurocognitive disorder - ✔✔depression, delirium,
dementia
✔✔Two of the most common scales used to assess older adults - ✔✔Karnofsky
Performance Scale (KPS) and the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) scale
✔✔What are the five parameters that both assessment scales use? - ✔✔fluid/food
intake, ability to care for self, ability to engage in activities, ability to ambulate, and level
of consciousness
✔✔KPS is often used for? - ✔✔determining eligibility to hospice
✔✔ECOG is often used for? - ✔✔determining if chemo is appropriate for patient
✔✔What are examples of reversible conditions that can cause memory loss? -
✔✔cardiac arrhythmias, high cholesterol, and high BP
✔✔What are the two assessments for dementia? - ✔✔mini-mental status exam,
montreal cognitive assessment
✔✔Two weaknesses of this assessment include (mini mental status exam) - ✔✔inability
to differentiate dementia types and its inability to detect the early stages of memory
loss.
✔✔What is the SPICES assessment tool? - ✔✔sleep disorders
problem eating
incontinence
confusion
evidence of falls
skin breakdown
✔✔theory of motivation that identifies three psychological needs of all individuals:
autonomy, relatedness, and competence (CIT). - ✔✔self determination theory
✔✔What is the universal desire to interact with others in a connected way that provides
a sense of the individual caring for others and others caring for the individual. -
✔✔relatedness
✔✔What is the desire to control outcomes and experience mastery over one's own life. -
✔✔competence
