Mental status examination: An assessment key to rehabilitation with implication in nursing

Abstract

The aim of review article is to explore the need of assessment mental status and strategies to practice mental status examination as an assessment key in the rehabilitation with the need for implication in nursing field. The study material collected from various sources like books, journals, online database of last ten years. The online search engines were Pubmed, CINHAL, psychoINFO and Google scholar. The article revealed about the need of mental status assessment, tools & techniques used for mental status assessment, existing practices, problems & limitations, strategies to improve the issues, nursing implication with available resources to handle the situation. The study concluded that mental status examination is a crucial and challenging part and responsibilities of the health professionals before the patient sending for rehabilitation services. Besides mental status examination, various other cognitive screening assessment tools are used to assess cognitive skill of a person, most commonly used are MMSE, MoCA, Mini Cog.