Confusion
Also Consider: Behavioral Disturbance, Dehydration, Delirium, Fever, Mood Change, Seizures, Weakness (General)
Please choose the most appropriate Situation:
- Verbal Aggression: yelling, cursing, threatening statements
- Physical Aggression: hitting, kicking, spitting, biting, scratching
- Socially inappropriate: disrobing, wandering, intrusive, elopement attempts, voiding in inappropriate places, smearing stool, stealing, repetition
- Refusal of care or assistance, uncooperative, falls
- Sudden change in level of consciousness: alert, lethargic, stuporous, comatose
- Sudden change in cognition: orientation, memory, confusion, disorganization
- Decreased attention, "in his own world"
- New altered sleep/wake cycle
- New or worsened hallucinations or delusions
- New or worsened sundowning, restlessness
- The patient may otherwise appear ill
- Change in emotions, feelings
- Expressions of depression, guilt, sadness, crying
- Loss of interest
- Expressions of anxiety, nervousness, fear, panic, worry