Online Companion: Fundamentals of Nursing Standards and Practice 2E

Chapter Objectives

After reading Chapter 36, the student should be ready to:
- Describe normal cognitive and sensory perceptual functioning.
- Identify responses to sensory deprivation and overload.
- Describe cognitive development across the lifespan.
- Identify pertinent nursing diagnoses that apply to clients experiencing alterations in sensation, perception and cognition.
- Describe learning needs of clients who experience alterations in cognition and sensory perception.
- Incorporate the nursing process in caring for clients who are experiencing alterations in cognition and sensory perception.