mental status?
By jeckoy10
@jeckoy10 (56)
Philippines
February 5, 2009 6:59am CST
im still a student nurse and i need a help here.
what is mental status or mental status exam?
1 response
@o0Babaylan0o (22)
• Philippines
1 Oct 11
The mental status exam is an assessment tool used in psychiatric nursing. If we have physical assessment forms for med-surg nursing, we have MSE for psych. In our school, we used a series of checklists exploring the following areas/components of mental health: appearance, behavior, affect and mood, orientation, memory, speech, intellect, judgment, insight to illness, thought content, though process and perceptual disturbance. Psych books explain these areas further and which questions to ask upon assessment.