Mental Health

2. Impaired comprehension with fluent speech
6. When assessing if the client is talkative or silent, the nurse is assessing?
8. "Do you think people are talking about you?"
9. Disorder of language
10. flat labile or blunted
11. based on impulse wish fulfillment disordered thought content
13. Leading contributing factor to disability
14. When should the nurse assess mental status?
17. Can be assessed by using similarities or proverbs
18. "Do you have thoughts or pictures in your head that will not go away?"
19. "I write with a den" words are malformed
20. Exposure to a traumatic event that threatens client with or serious injury

1. Defective articulation
3. "Are you extremely afraid of anything?"
4. First sign of a client deteriorating neurologic system?
5. Determined by asking client questions about time situation place and person
7. Preserved comprehension and slow nonfluent speech
12. Impaired volume quality or pitch of voice
15. Overall observation and screening of a client's behavior and cognitive function
16. "What you write with" instead of saying pen