The nurse is planning to assess a client's mental status. What should the nurse use to make this assessment?
1. Ability to communicate
2. Ability to remember recent and past events
3. Orientation and level of consciousness
4. Awareness about their surroundings
Answer: 3
1. Communication assesses a portion of the client's mental status.
2. Memory assesses only a part of the client's mental status.
3. Mental status is determined by checking both level of awareness (orientation) and the client's state of arousal, or level of consciousness.
4. Level of awareness (orientation) assesses only a part of the client's mental status.
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