NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course — Lesson 46: Cognitive Disorders: Delirium vs. Dementia, Sundowning, and Caring for the Confused Patient

Sarah Mitchell teaches the one-sentence distinction between delirium and dementia, the reversible causes the nurse hunts for, and the CAM, Mini-Cog, and MMSE tools. She walks through Alzheimer's stages and the vascular, Lewy body, and frontotemporal variants, then builds the environment, communication, and sundowning and wandering strategies that keep confused patients safe, and closes with cholinesterase inhibitors, memantine, the drugs to avoid, and two scenarios.

Lesson 46 of 125 in the NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course audio course from ExamPrepRise.

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