Jt's Physical Assessment

A Mental Status Examination (MSE) was completed on Jadine Sawyer to evaluate her level of thinking. This examination was conducted to document how she is feeling with the life changes that are taking place in her life. Jadine’s level of thinking was recorded to provide a diagnoisis to the symptoms she is experiencing. This Mental Status Examination (MSE) also was formulated to provide a treatment plan to better assist the client.

There are ranges of specialists who work on the rehabilitation team, each member of the team has a goal to help patient with a focus of promote QOL. The Case Managers are will be the primary contact person, with whom patient and family/caregiver can direct raise matters and ask for information. It is advised that a neuropsychologist should conduct a cognitive and behavioural/emotional assessment. Cognitive include perception and awareness, orientation, memory, though processing, problem solving, personality and decision making. Behavioural/emotional include emotional status, mood changes, adjustment difficulties, personality changes, inappropriate sexual behaviour, motivation level, substances misuse, depression, anxiety and psychosis. Nurses are involved with

2.1: Explain the importance of recording possible signs or symptoms of dementia in an individual in line with agreed ways of working?

Development of dissociative disorders in adulthood appears to be related to the intensity/frequency of dissociation during the actual the traumatic event(s) (Dissociation FAQ’s). Dissociation may become a defensive pattern that persists into adulthood and can result in a full-fledged disorder (D.I.D.).

Smithson’s work ethic declined rapidly. He was unorganized, inattentive, and he lacked concentration. His performance on the WAIS-IV suggested similar cognitive difficulties as evidenced by his low average scores in PRI and WMI. The patient’s overall mood shifted. His appeared mood is melancholic, he had a decreased concentration level, and his social interactions were negatively impacted. While Mr. Smithson was taking the test, he was distracted but continued to try his best, despite the difficulty of maintaining focus. There were consistent deficits throughout the full assessment, indicating that the MVA mildly to moderately impaired Mr. Smithson’s social, occupational, emotional, and cognitive functioning.

Have you or anyone around you ever said you were having a "senior moment?" In defense of seniors, you can have one of these moments at any age. What it refers to are those moments when you can 't remember what you came into a room for or you can 't find your car keys for the billionth time this week. These moments are a common occurrence, but the older you get, the more you worry if something more is going on.

Cognition is a broad term, which comprises of number of mental faculties which an individual acquire, process and store information, and how they use information to make decisions and solve problems. Each cognitive test mentioned below is described briefly in three aspects (figure 1).

Despite some of Ms. Hester’s noted difficulties with delayed recall and attention on the Mini Mental Status Exam, her results suggest that her score of 26/30 is within normal limits. Due to Ms. Hester’s most recent presenting problem upon admission, she would likely benefit from more supervised care through an in home health service or senior care facility. Supervised care will work to ensure continued medication compliance and a connection with a senior services program will afford her the opportunity to gain support and stay active.

The Cognitive Performance Test was developed in 1986 by an occupational therapist named Theressa Burns (Douglas, Letts, & Liu, 2007). Funding support was provided by the National Institute on Aging and the Veterans Administration (Burns, Mortimer, & Merchak, 1994). The CPT was created to fulfill the need to accurately assess the cognitive disability in individuals with dementia in order to help caregivers build a safe environment (Bar-Yosef, Weinblatt, & Katz, 1999). The Cognitive Performance Test was designed based on the Cognitive Disability Model in occupational therapy in which functional disability is divided into six ordinal levels that rate cognition (Bar-Yosef, Weinblatt, & Katz, 1999). The first CPT manual was published in 1986

Patient has an average female build. She displays good hygiene, no visible lesions or skin rashes. Patient does not appear to be under any physical distress. A good range of emotions displayed. Depression is apparent. No current suicidal ideation plans. Speech and language functions are adequate. Patient is alert and compliant. Patient reports no hallucinations.

You can assess much of patients’ mental status via simple observation and through their answers to your questions during history taking. For a screening exam, you are done if the patient makes appropriate eye contact and does not drift off or need things repeated, is able to converse normally with you, and answers questions about medical history and recent events in a consistent manner. Obviously, if the patient’s spouse or child is sitting there shaking his or her head, repeatedly correcting the patient, or giving you a completely different account of historical or recent events, you will need to do a more formal assessment. Seven areas of mental status need to be considered:

The memory deficiency that I chose was amnesia. In particular I chose to focus on retrograde amnesia. Two movies that depict retrograde amnesia are Regarding Henry and The Vow.

Alzheimer’s unit at the Villa cares for patients that need more special care and have some type of cognitive impairment. The first thing I did was introduce myself to the staff and the residents, I talked with the nurse aids in charge and asked them about the clients, their routines, what activities they like and which ones they don’t. Patients with cognitive impairments benefit from a structure schedule, this helps stimulate his memory and they are able to remember at what time certain things are done. This experience was challenging at first because the short experience we have working with these types of clients, but with the help of the aids and the instructor my stay there was beneficial for my personal and

Distractibility is the quality of being liable to distraction, being unable to concentrate or to produce sustained attention. Distractibility refers to how easily, or not so easily, things going on around us disrupt our thought processes and attention. Some people are highly distractible, noticing every sight and sound around them; therefore it is not surprising that some people struggle daily to focus on a certain task. When working on a task, they are often side-tracked and have a difficult time paying attention. Distraction can impair productivity and increase the risk of accidents (Wallace and Vodanovich, 2003). In fact, most of us experience it. When we are reading a book, 20 to 40 percent of the time our mind is wandering anywhere while

Rebecca is an 18 year old woman who lives at home with her parents in Chicopee, MA. Rebecca has a primary disability of Autism with impairments in communication, slow processing, reading, writing, grammar, spelling and math; which impacts her memory, organization, reading comprehension, written expression, math and interpersonal relationships.