Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing 13th Edition by Kerry Cheever, Janice Hinkle

Exercise 2

You are conducting an admission assessment on a 68-year-old woman admitted fora planned hip replacement. Her husband reports that she has become confused in thepast 3 days.What assessment parameters and tools would you use to differentiateamong the possibilities of infection, other physical conditions, dementia, andAlzheimer's disease? What information should you provide to the patient's husband?What actions and interventions are indicated?