When Performing a Mental Status Examination on an Older Adult

question 14

Multiple Choice

When performing a mental status examination on an older adult client,the nurse discovers that the client is illiterate and only has a third-grade education.How should the nurse assess the client's cognition?

• A) Have the client spell the word "world" backwards.
• B) Have the client spell the word "world" forwards.
• C) Ask the client to perform serial 7s.
• D) Instruct the client to state the days of the week backwards.

Analyze the relationship between investment in essential skills training and productivity, absenteeism, and turnover.

Comprehend the specific benefits of essential skills training for employees.

Understand the legal and operational requirements for specialized training such as health and safety, and ethics.

Identify best practices in organizational training programs to improve ethical behavior, diversity inclusion, and harassment prevention.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A metric indicating the extent of difference or scattering among a series of figures.

Variability

The measure of how much data points in a set diverge from the average or mean value, indicating the spread or dispersion of the dataset.

Standard Deviation

A measure that is used to quantify the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values.

Standard Error

The typical variability or spread in the sampling distribution of a statistic, most commonly the mean, is referred to as the standard deviation.