NURS 388 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
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What are the 5 sections of the Mental Status Exam? - ANSWER✔✔-General
Appearance/observations, emotional state, thought processes, thought content,
sensorium and cognition
What is observed in General Appearance? - ANSWER✔✔--facial expression, cleanliness,
hygiene, clothing
-overt behavior/psychomotor activity (stupor, excitement, pacing)
-physiological signs (flush, pallor, tears)
-attitude towards interviewer
-impulse control
-reliability as an interviewee
What does "emotional state" comprise of? - ANSWER✔✔-Affect: observable expression
of subjectively experienced feeling state (blunted/flat, sad, angry, labile, constricted)
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, Mood: Pervasive, sustained emotion that colors the person's perception of the world
(depressed, irritable, anxious, angry, expansive, euphoric)
What does "thought processes" comprise? - ANSWER✔✔--Quantity, quality and rate of
flow of speech
-Loose associations
-Tangential
-Clanging
-Abstract reasoning
-Perceptual Disorders (hallucinations, illusions, depersonalizations, derealization,
heightened, dulled or distorted perceptions)
What does "thought content" comprise? - ANSWER✔✔--Delusions
-Recurrent themes, preoccupations, obsessions, compulsions
What is a delusion? 4 types - ANSWER✔✔-a fixed false belief in something that is not
there/real.
i.e persecutory, grandiose, somatic, nialistic
What does "sensorium and cognition" comprise? - ANSWER✔✔--orientation
-concentration
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100% SOLVED ANSWERS/NEWEST
UPDATE/GRADE A+ ASSURED
What are the 5 sections of the Mental Status Exam? - ANSWER✔✔-General
Appearance/observations, emotional state, thought processes, thought content,
sensorium and cognition
What is observed in General Appearance? - ANSWER✔✔--facial expression, cleanliness,
hygiene, clothing
-overt behavior/psychomotor activity (stupor, excitement, pacing)
-physiological signs (flush, pallor, tears)
-attitude towards interviewer
-impulse control
-reliability as an interviewee
What does "emotional state" comprise of? - ANSWER✔✔-Affect: observable expression
of subjectively experienced feeling state (blunted/flat, sad, angry, labile, constricted)
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, Mood: Pervasive, sustained emotion that colors the person's perception of the world
(depressed, irritable, anxious, angry, expansive, euphoric)
What does "thought processes" comprise? - ANSWER✔✔--Quantity, quality and rate of
flow of speech
-Loose associations
-Tangential
-Clanging
-Abstract reasoning
-Perceptual Disorders (hallucinations, illusions, depersonalizations, derealization,
heightened, dulled or distorted perceptions)
What does "thought content" comprise? - ANSWER✔✔--Delusions
-Recurrent themes, preoccupations, obsessions, compulsions
What is a delusion? 4 types - ANSWER✔✔-a fixed false belief in something that is not
there/real.
i.e persecutory, grandiose, somatic, nialistic
What does "sensorium and cognition" comprise? - ANSWER✔✔--orientation
-concentration
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