AHA FINAL NOTES-1.

AHA FINAL NOTES-1. Health Assessment Final Review Exam Must have 78% to pass between both exams Always go with the text book MENTAL ASSESSMENT (Ch 5 pgs 64-78) 1. What does orientation to person, place, and time assess? When you perform assessment, what exactly are you looking for? Pg. 67 Person, place and time assess state of consciousness. When performing this assessment you are looking for cognitive function. Person disorientation is a result of cerebral trauma, seizures, or amnesia; Place disorientation occurs with psychiatric disorders, delirium, and cognitive impairment; Time disorientation is associated with anxiety, delirium, depression, and cognitive impairment. 8. Assessing orientation to person, place, and time helps determine a. the ability to understand analogies. b. abstract reasoning. c. attention span. d. state of consciousness. e. emotional status.