Health Assessment Pt. 1

Health assessment 

70 cards   |   Total Attempts: 188
  

Cards In This Set

Front Back
Early Adulthood Psychosocial development:
Intimacy vs. isolation
Early adulthood
cognitive development:
Focuses on work and career development
Middle Adulthood Psychosocial development:
Generativity vs. stagnation
Late Adulthood Psychosocial development
Ego integrity vs. despair
When to perform a full mental status exam:
Behavior changes Brain lesions Aphasia Symptoms of psychiatric mental illness
Levels of consciousness
Alert Lethargic Obtunded Stupor Coma Acute confusional state
Types of aphasia
Global aphasia- most common/severe Broca's aphasia- expressive aphasia Wernicke's aphasia- receptive aphasia
Which of the following is the most basic function and therefore should be tested first
in an assessment of mental status
Consciousness
Order of Examination
Inspection
palpation
percussion
auscultation
Secondary skin lesions
  • Crust
  • Scale
  • Fissure
  • Erosion
  • Ulcer
  • Excortation
  • Scar
  • Atrophic scar
  • Lichenification
  • Keloid
Paranasal sinuses
• Frontal • Maxillary Under cheek bones • Ethmoid In between eyes • Sphenoid
Extraocular muscles
Superior rectus Inferior rectus Lateral rectus Medial rectus Superior oblique Inferior oblique
Visual Reflexes
Pupillary light reflexes Fixation Accomodatio
EYE Cranial Nerves
  1. Abducts the eye
  1. Innervates the superior oblique muscle
3 -innervates the rest
Most common causes of decreased vision for elderly:
  • Cataract formation
  • Glaucoma
  • Macular degeneration