Author Question: A client was admitted to the ICU after a motor vehicle accident. She sustained a right parietal ... (Read 65 times)

jerry coleman · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

A client was admitted to the ICU after a motor vehicle accident. She sustained a right parietal injury, resulting in an acute confusional state or delirium. She complains that there are bugs crawling around on her arms. The nurse understands what?

A) Such hallucinations suggest preexisting schizophrenia.
B) Transient tactile hallucinations are sometimes seen in delirium.
C) Such symptoms indicate increasing brain damage and poor prognosis.
D) The client is more prone to such episodes early in the morning.

Question 2

Heindel and Salloway (1999) identified four distinct, yet mutually interacting, memory systems as being affected in dementia. Which of the following is not one of them?

A) Working memory
B) Episodic memory
C) Semantic memory
D) Short-term memory

taylorsonier · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 19, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Ans: B
With delirium, as is the case with the client, transient tactile hallucinations are seen in many cases. This type of tactile hallucination would not indicate schizophrenia or brain damage, nor would the client be any more prone to them at any time of the day.

Answer to Question 2

Ans: D
Heindel and Salloway (1999) have found that memory is not a single homogenous entity. Rather, it is composed of four distinct, yet mutually interacting, memory systems: working memory, episodic memory, semantic memory, and procedural memory. Short-term memory refers to the length of time during which material is remembered, not to a distinct type of memory system.