Screening Questions for..

Question 1

CAGE questions for alcohol?

Answer 1

Have you ever felt a need to cut down on drinking?
Have you ever felt annoyed by criticism of your drinking?
Have you ever had guilty feelings about drinking?
Have you ever had a drink first thing in the morning to steady your nerves or get rid of a hangover?

Question 2

Domestic violence questions?

Answer 2

Are you safe at home?
Is there any threat to your personal safety at home or anywhere else?
Does anyone treat you in a way that hurts you or threatens to hurt you?
Can you tell me about the bruises on your arm?

Question 3

Depression screening questions?

Answer 3

Sleep disorder
Interest deficit
Guilt
Energy deficit
Concentration deficit
Appetite disorder 
Psychomotor retardation or agitation
Suicidal

Question 4

Manic episode screening questions?

Answer 4

Distractibility
Indiscretion (excessive involvement in pleasurable activities)
Grandiosity
Flight of ideas
Activity increase 
Sleep deficit (decreased need for sleep)
Talkativeness (pressured speech)

Question 5

Mini Mental Exam

Answer 5

Orientation

• What is the year, season, date, day, moth?
• Where are we? state, county, town, hospital, floor

Registration
-Name 3 objects: 1 second to say each. Then ask the patient all 3 after you have said it. Then repeat until he learns all 3. Count # trials and record

Attention and Calculation
-Spell the word “world” backward

Recall
-Ask for the 3 objects repeated above.

Language

• Point to a pen, and watch and ask the patient to name it
• Repeat the following “No if’s, and’s or but’s”
• Follow a 3-stage command “ take a paper in your right hand, fold it in half, and put it on the floor”
• Read and obey: Close your eyes, have them write a sentence or have them copy a design (2 intersecting pentagrams)

Question 6

HEADDSSS questions for peds

Answer 6

HEADDSSS is a framework used to describe the domains of an appropriate social history in an adolescent. The domains include the following:

H: Home environment
E: Employment and education
A: Activities
D: Diet
D: Drugs
S: Sexual activity/sexuality
S: Suicide/depression
S: Safety

Question 7

Elderly abuse

Answer 7

Red flags:

• bruising
• neglect
• anxious about SH questions regarding familly

Question 8

PCP intoxication

Answer 8

Rage
Erythema
Dilated pupils

Delusions
Amnesia
Nystagmus
Excitation
Skin Dryness