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AP Psychology
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AP Psychology
Agnosia
Agnosia is the failure to recognize or identify objects despite intact sensory
function - A nurse is assessing a client diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. As
part of the assessment, the nurse asks the client to identify common objects. The
nurse is assessing for what?
Aphasia
Apraxia...
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Agnosia
Agnosia is the failure to recognize or identify objects despite intact sensory
function - ✔✔A nurse is assessing a client diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. As
part of the assessment, the nurse asks the client to identify common objects. The
nurse is assessing for what?
Aphasia
Apraxia
Agnosia
Executive functioning
Apraxia
Apraxia is the impaired ability to execute motor functions despite intact motor
abilities. - ✔✔Which term is used to describe the inability to execute motor
functioning, despite intact motor abilities?
Apraxia
Aphasia
Agnosia
Executive functioning
Achievement of self-esteem needs
The primary goal of treatment of individuals with delirium is prevention or
resolution of the acute confusional episode with return to previous cognitive
status and interventions focusing on (1) elimination or correction of the
underlying cause and (2) symptomatic and safety and supportive measures.
Self-esteem is not an issue with delirium. - ✔✔After teaching a group of nursing
students about dementia, the instructor determines a need for additional
teaching when the students identify which as a primary goal of nursing care?
Achievement of self-esteem needs
Protection from injury
Management of confusion
Addressing physiological and psychological needs
Achievement of self-esteem needs
,Achievement of self-esteem needs would not be a primary goal of nursing care for
the client diagnosed with delirium. All other options would be primary goals. -
✔✔Which would not be considered a primary goal of nursing care for a client
with delirium?
Achievement of self-esteem needs
Protection from injury
Management of confusion
Meeting physiological and psychological needs
Pneumonia
Delirium in the older adult is associated with medications, infections, fluid and
electrolyte imbalance, metabolic disturbances, or hypoxia or ischemia. Infections
of the respiratory tract such as pneumonia or urinary tract are the most common
- ✔✔A older adult client develops delirium secondary to an infection. Which
would be the most likely cause?
Pneumonia
Cellulitis
Low platelet count
Appendicitis
Signs of delirium
Delirium is a syndrome characterized by a rapid onset of cognitive dysfunction
and disruption in consciousness. Growing rates of delirium mirror the increasing
older adult population and are expected to continue to rise. Delirium is the most
common psychiatric syndrome in general hospitals, occurring in up to 50% of
elderly inpatients. It is associated with significantly increased morbidity and
mortality both during and after hospitalization. - ✔✔The nurse receives a report
that a 75-year-old client is recovering from surgery. During the shift, the nurse
notes that the client is forgetful and restless. Several times, the client calls the
nurse the name of the client's daughter. The nurse interprets this behavior as
what?
Normal for the first postoperative day
Normal, given the client's age
Signs of early Alzheimer's disease
Signs of delirium
Visual
Hallucinations occur frequently in dementia and are usually visual or tactile (they
can also be auditory, gustatory, or olfactory). Visual, rather than auditory,
hallucinations are the most common type in people with dementia. - ✔✔When
assessing a client with dementia, a nurse identifies that the client is experiencing
hallucinations. Based on the nurse's understanding of this disorder, which type of
hallucination would the nurse expect as most common?
, Auditory
Visual
Gustatory
Olfactory
observe the client in order to identify the triggers for the delusions
Clients with dementia may believe that their physical safety is jeopardized; they
may feel threatened or suspicious and paranoid. These feelings can lead to
agitated or erratic behavior that compromises safety. Avoiding direct
confrontation of the client's fears is important. Clients with dementia may struggle
with fears and suspicion throughout their illness. Triggers of suspicion include
strangers, changes in the daily routine, or impaired memory. The nurse must
discover and address these environmental triggers rather than confront the
paranoid ideas. - ✔✔What is the initial intervention the nurse should implement
when helping a client diagnosed with dementia deal with paranoid delusions?
-explain to the client that his or her fears are unfounded
-observe the client in order to identify the triggers for the delusions
-ask that the client be prescribed medication to help manage the paranoia
-keep the client occupied when he or she first begins to express the delusion
It has a rapid onset and is highly treatable if diagnosed quickly.
Delirium often is caused by an acute disruption of brain homeostasis. When the
cause of that disruption is eliminated or subsides, the cognitive deficits usually
resolve within a few days or sometimes weeks. Dementia, in contrast, results from
primary brain pathology that usually is irreversible, chronic, progressive, and less
amenable to treatment. - ✔✔Delirium can be differentiated from many other
cognitive disorders in which way?
-It has as a slow onset, but if caught early it can be treated with medications.
-It is much less responsive to pharmacologic treatment than the other disorders.
-It has a rapid onset and is highly treatable if diagnosed quickly.
-It is characterized by a period of disorganization and confusion.
The client may have apraxia.
Impaired ability to execute motor functions despite having intact motor abilities
is referred to as apraxia. In this case, the client knows how to and has the physical
abiltiy to brush the client's teeth but is unable to demonstrate the action upon
request. Thus the client has apraxia. The inability to recognize or name objects or
sounds heard is referred to as agnosia. Aphasia is the deterioration of language
function. Disturbed executive function is the inability to carry out complex motor
activities. Using a toothbrush is not a complex activity. - ✔✔The nurse asks a
client to pretend the client is brushing the client's teeth. The client is unable to
perform the action. Upon examination, the nurse finds that the client possesses
intact motor abilities. What can this problem be documented as?
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