NUR 105 Cognition
- Alert
Answer patient is fully awake (not oriented) pt will have open eyes and respond to voice (may be confused) will have bodily motor functions
- Apraxia
Answer inability to manipulate objects or perform purposeful acts, not perform- ing cells
- Delirium
Answer acute confused state that begins with disorientation, if not recognized
- treated early it can progress to changes in level of consciousness, irreversibility, brain damage
or death
- Dementia
Answer broad term for a syndrome characterized by a general decline in higher brain functioning such as reasoning, with a pattern of eventual decline in the ability to perform basic activities of daily living, such as toileting or eating
- Dysgraphia
Answer difficult communicating via writing
- Dysphasia
Answer difficulty comprehending language + oral communication 1 / 2
- Orientation
Answer person's ability to recognize who + where he or she is in a time continuum; used to evaluate one's basic cognitive status
- Sundowning
Answer person with cognitive impairment + elderly people tend to be more confused or disoriented at the end of day
-diminished visual acuity , sensorineural + hearing loss -decreased sensory stimulation *MOST COMMON with dementia, Alzheimer's, delirium
- Visual agnosia
Answer inability to recognize objects by sight
*looking at a pen = not knowing what it is
- Exemplars
- Cognitive assessment
Answer
- Delirium
- Alzheimer's disease (most common with dementia)
- Cognition
Answer mental action + process of knowledge & understanding through thought, experience and all senses
-processes involved in human thought *sensory input, processing, storage, retrieval, use
- / 2