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From ANCC Review

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Appearance includes   overall appearance related to age and culture, hygiene and grooming, style, appropriateness of clothing for age, weather and occasion, posture and mannerisms, psychomotor excitation and slowness  
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Behavior Includes   General behavior - impulsivity, passive, hostile, fearful. Motor behavior - pacing, lethargy, catatonic. Attitude toward clinician and willingness to cooperate.  
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Emotion includes   mood and affect  
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Mood is   internal feelings that influence behavior  
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Examples of mood provided   depressed, suspicious, elated, irritable, angry, euthymic  
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Affect is   the emotional expression variation - found in face, voice, use of body movements  
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Examples of affect provided   flat, guarded, inappropriate, blunted, restricted, labile  
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Thought Processes and Content include   ability to use words to communicate, stream of thought, continuity of logical progression of thought, content of thought.  
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Thought processes include   continuity/org. of ideas - problems w word finding, processing abstract ideas, blocking, unexpected thought stoppage. Consider flow & rhythm - slowed or racing thoughts. Logical coherency, amount - excessive/poverty of speech, language/meaning deficits  
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Evaluation of thought content includes   Suicide, Homocide, Delusions, Phobias, Obsessions, Insight, Judgement  
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Evaluation of thought content - suicide   plan, intent, opportunity means  
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Evaluation of thought content - Homicide   victim, realistic plan  
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Evaluation of thought content - delusions   fixed, false beliefs - control : can control others thoughts or someone has control over their thoughts  
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Evaluation of thought content - phobias   intense, unreasonable fear  
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Evaluation of thought content - obsessions   intrusive, repetitious  
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Evaluation of thought content - insight   realization of the problem. The extent of the individuals awareness, willingness to look at role in maintaining the symptoms, awareness of behavioral consequences - lifestyle changes needed for coping  
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Evaluation of thought content - judgement   decision making, realistic foresight. realistic decision making based on current level of knowledge and realistic understanding of options - resources, strengths and limitations.  
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Definition of delusion as provided by ANCC   False beliefs that cannot be dislodged by logic or contradictory evidence, not congruent with normative culture or religious beliefs.  
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Delusions - of reference   other people's thoughts words or actions refer to self  
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Delusions - of persecution   other people have malevolent intentions towards self or are conspiring against the person  
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Religious Delusions   unrealistic special relationship with God  
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Nihilistic Delusions   destruction of self, world, body part  
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Grandiose Delusions   special or gifted, powerful or important without factual support  
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Language & Thought Processing - Clanging*   choice of words based on similar sound, not associated ideas  
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Language & Thought Processing - Echolalia*   repetition of other peoples words or phrases  
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Language & Thought Processing - Neologisms*   creation of new words that don't make sense  
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Language & Thought Processing - Word Salad*   disorganized, senseless progression of words  
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Language & Thought Processing - Perseveration   tedious repetition of the same words or ideas regardless of stimuli  
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Language & Thought Processing - flight of ideas/loose association   ideas are not logically connected, abrupt changes in topic  
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Language & Thought Processing - thought blocking   interruption or delay in thought processing, not related to lack of concentration, distraction or anxiety  
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Language & Thought Processing - tangential   pt goes of on a tangent not related to subject  
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Language & Thought Processing - circumstantial   pt answers questions about everything related to question and finally gets to the point  
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Language & Thought Processing - confabulation   pt recalls false memories - could be part of disease processes - dementia  
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Disurbances of Perception - depersonalization   A sense of alienation from normal identity, as though one has become an outside observer with no control of one’s own mental or physical processes.  
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Disurbances of Perception - derealization   The false sensation that one’s surroundings have become unfamiliar or unreal.  
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Disurbances of Perception - illusions   A distorted perception of reality; unlike delusions, illusions are generally shared by most people, as in a 3D “hidden picture” puzzle. - breeze blows curtain - think someone is behind it  
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Disurbances of Perception - deja vu, jamais vu   A false sense of visual familiarity in a situation. The term means “already seen” in French. The strange feeling that one does not recognize a familiar situation. Literally means “never seen” in French.  
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Disurbances of Perception - flashbacks   involuntary recurrent memory  
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Disurbances of Perception - hallucinations   can be auditory/visual/olfactory/tactile command, pervasive, episodic with stress  
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Auditory hallucinations are found in   psychiatric disorders  
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visual hallucinations are more common in   cognitive and organic disorders  
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olfactory and tactile hallucinations are more common with   drug use, medical conditions  
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Mood congruent tends to occur in   depression*  
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Mood incongruent tends to occur in   schizophrenia*  
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Disturbances in sensorium and cognition are related to   organic dysfunction due to meds, substance abuse, cognitive disorder  
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Assess memory recall for   immediate, recent and remote  
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Assess orientation to   person, time and place  
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Assess concentration through   serial 7s - keep in mind educational level  
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Assess abstract thinking through   proverb interpretation  
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Two short tests to check cognitive impairment   MMSE (Folstein) and SLUMS (St. Louis University MSE)  
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Scoring on the MMSE is   25-30 Normal 21-24 Mild cognitive d/o 16-20 Moderate cognitive d/o <15 severe cognitive disorder or mild and severe cut offs of 24 and 18  
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Anything below __ on the MMSE is an indicator of dementia.*   24  
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This test has greater sensitivity than the MMSE   SLUMS  
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The Clock Drawing Task is incorporated into which test   SLUMS  
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Scoring on the SLUMS   w HS education 27-30 Normal 21-26 Mild Neurocog Impairment 1-20 Dementia <HS education 25 20 <20  
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This can be used as a rapid screening for dementia   the clock drawing test (11:10 or 8:20) 4 points total  
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