NSG 102

• Neurologic Assessment

  • Mental Status
  • Level of Consciousness
  • Cranial Nerves
  • Reflexes
  • Motor function
  • Sensory Function
• Mental Status


  • Cognitive - intellectual functions
  • Affective - Emotional functions
• Focus: Mental Status


  • Language
  • Orientation
  • Memory
  • Attention Span and calculation
• Aphasia


  Any defects in or loss of the power to express oneself by speech, writing, or signs, or to comprehend spoken or written language due to disease or injury of the cerebral cortex
• Global aphasia


  Lack of expressive and receptive language
• Types of Aphasias

  • Sensory or receptive aphasia
  • Motor or Expressive Aphasia
• Sensory or receptive aphasia


  Wernicke's aphasia, is the loss of the ability to comprehend written or spoken words
• Subcategories of Sensory Aphasias

  • Auditory/acoustic aphasias
  • Visual Aphasia
• Auditory/acoustic aphasias


  Lost the ability to understand the symbolic content associated with sounds
• Visual Aphasia


  Have lost the ability to understand printed or written figures
• Motor or Expressive Aphasia


  Known as the Broca's Aphasia, loss of the power to express oneself by writing, making signs, or speaking, partial loss of the ability to produce language (spoken, manual or written) despite intact comprehension, exhibited by effortful speech