Mental Status Examination New Ranchi
Mental Status Examination New Ranchi
Mental Status Examination New Ranchi
status
examination
MENTAL HEALTH AND PSYCHIATRIC nURSING
MADAM m. mandal
Senior lecturer
CON, NRSMC&H
SUBMITTED BY:
REETU TAMANG
CON, NRSMC&h
MENTAL STATUS EXAMINATION
2. CHIEF COMPLAINS :
Appearance : Normal
Facial expression : Pleasant
Level of grooming : Well dressed
Level of cleanliness : Adequate
Level of consciousness : Fully Conscious
Gait and posture : Normal
Mode of entry : persuaded
Behavior : Normal
Psychomotor Activity : Normal
Gesturing : Normal
Comprehension
Nurse : what is your name ?
Patient : My name is Rupesh kr.chodhuary
Inference : Understanding
Motor Activity
Increased/decreased : Normal
Excitement/stupor : No
Psychomotor activity : Normal
Other catatonic signs : No
Conversion and dissociative signs : No
Hallucinatory behavior : No
B. SPEECH
Initiation : Slow
Reaction time : Slow
Rate : Normal
Productivity :
Volume :
Tone :
Ease of speech :
Relevance :
Coherence :
Goal direction :
Inference :
D. THOUGHT
Stream :
Form :
Content :
Delusions :
Ideas :
Thought alienation phenomena :
Obsessional/compulsive phenomena :
Phobias :
Any preoccupations :
Inference :
D. PERCEPTION
Illusions :
Hallucinations :
Somatic passivity :
Déjà vu/ jamais vu :
Depersonalization/derealization :
Inference :
E. COGNITIVE FUNCTION
Consciousness:
Orientation:
Time
Nurse :
Patient :
Place
Nurse :
Patient :
Person
Nurse :
Patient :
Attention
Digit forward :
Digit backward :
Concentration
Test
Nurse :
patient :
name of months (backwards) :
name of weekdays (backwards) :
inference :
memory
immediate retention and recall (ir and r):
recent:
remote:
personal events :
impersonal events :
illness related events :
inference :
intelligence
nurse :
patient :
inference:
abstract thinking
proverb testing
nurse :
patient :
similarities and difference between familiar objects:
inference:
judgment
the personal judgment
nurse :
patient :
intact/not:
social judgment
nurse :
patient :
test judgment:
nurse :
patient :
inference:
f. insight
grade 1 : complete denial of illness.
grade 2 : slight awareness of being sick and needing help, but denying it at the same time.
grade 3 : awareness of being sick, but it is attributed to external or physical factors.
grade 4 : awareness of being sick, due to something unknown in self.
grade 5 : awareness of being ill and that the symptoms/failures in social adjustment are due to
own particular irrational feelings/thoughts; yet does not apply this knowledge to the
current or future experiences.
grade 6 : awareness leads to significant basic changes in the future behavior.
nurse :
patient :
inference:
diagnostic formulation:
impression: