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Esther Park — Cognition Assessment

Complete Esther Park Shadow Health cognition assessment with the full transcript, 56/56 subjective data collection, 24/24 objective findings, education and empathy notes, EHR documentation, and a care plan centered on impaired memory, medication compliance, and safe discharge planning.

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Clinical Overview

Esther Park — Cognition Assessment

Esther Park is a 78-year-old Korean American woman with hypertension. She presents with a pounding frontal headache, nausea, confusion, trouble concentrating, and worsening short-term memory. Her daughter Jennifer adds important history about repeated questions, missed medication doses, and growing safety concerns at home.

The interview shows that Esther remains oriented, but recent recall is weaker. She remembers quinapril only on most days, uses ginseng, eats canned soup often, sleeps less than usual, and avoids cooking because she worries she may leave the stove on.

The completed bundle includes the full Esther Park case materials: the transcript, 56/56 subjective findings, 24/24 objective findings, education and empathy prompts, EHR documentation, and a care plan focused on impaired memory and safer medication routines.

Primary Diagnosis: Impaired memory with family-reported confusion and missed medication doses
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Transcript, subjective and objective data, education points, model documentation, and care plan.
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Gerontology, adult health, medication-safety, and Shadow Health cognition coursework.
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  • Transcript showing headache, concentration issues, memory loss, and collateral history
  • Medication review for quinapril adherence, latex allergy, and ginseng use
  • Objective findings including vitals, IV checks, neuro screening, gait, grip, and skin assessment
  • Clock drawing and word recall findings that support impaired memory
  • Education prompts on blood pressure control, pill organization, ginseng, and sodium intake
  • Documentation comparing student wording with model EHR phrasing
  • Care plan goals, interventions, rationale, and partial-goal evaluation

Chief complaint and onset

Ms. Park comes to the ER reporting a terrible pounding headache behind the forehead, worsening concentration, and memory slipping. The headache started two days earlier, reached 9/10 on arrival, and improves somewhat with a cold compress but worsens when she lies flat.

History and context

She is a 78-year-old Korean American woman with hypertension since age 54, taking quinapril, living with her daughter Jennifer after the death of her husband. The transcript shows growing forgetfulness, missed routines, and increased reliance on family support.

Medication and lifestyle risks

The case ties cognition concerns to occasional missed blood-pressure doses, uncertain recall of last medication timing, long-term ginseng use, and frequent canned soup intake with unclear sodium awareness. These details make the education and care-plan sections much more specific.

Functional and safety concerns

She reports forgetting to bathe unless reminded, cooking less because she fears leaving the stove on, sleeping less than usual, and feeling overwhelmed in unfamiliar situations. Even with intact mobility and no recent falls, the case clearly raises home-safety and caregiver-planning issues.

Score89.5 out of 92.5 on the Student Performance Index with 100% digital clinical experience score.
Subjective56 out of 56 collected, including ROS, family history, medication review, and geriatric function.
Objective24 out of 24 collected, including vitals, IV, gait, pulses, temporal arteries, and cognition testing.
Time75 minutes total spent in the assignment, with 74 minutes interacting with the patient.
  • Esther reports the headache is frontal, pounding, pressure-like, and unusual for her, with nausea but no vomiting.
  • She states her memory has been slipping, it is harder to recall things lately, and she has felt more confused over the last few days.
  • She takes Accupril for hypertension but admits she remembers it only “most days,” and she cannot clearly recall her last dose.
  • She uses ginseng and tried an herbal remedy for the headache, which creates a useful teaching point around non-prescription substances and blood pressure.
  • Her diet history includes canned soup and reduced meal preparation because she worries she may forget to turn the stove off.
  • She reports sleeping less than usual, waking during the night, becoming nervous in new situations, and experiencing recent mood changes without suicidal thoughts.

Stable physical exam pattern

The objective section confirms normal temperature, oxygenation, heart and lung sounds, intact IV site and pump settings, normal urine appearance, and no major skin or lower-extremity abnormalities. This helps position the memory concern as the main residual issue after the acute headache and blood-pressure crisis improve.

Cognition and neuro screening

The case includes clock drawing, word recall, posture, fine motor testing, grip strength, gait, capillary refill, and skin turgor. Esther recalls only one of the three words later, which is a major anchor point for the impaired-memory diagnosis and care-plan rationale.

EHR documentation details

The documentation file frames Esther as alert and oriented x4, records the frontal headache, memory loss, nausea, hypertension history, quinapril use, latex allergy, ginseng use, family history of hypertension and diabetes, and social history as a retired nurse living with her daughter.

Priority nursing diagnosis

The care plan identifies impaired memory as the most appropriate diagnosis, supported by memory loss, family-reported confusion, poor recall and clock-drawing performance, and missed medication doses reported by the family.

Interventions and teaching

The intervention plan focuses on memory techniques, compensatory strategies, medication reminders, and involving Jennifer in discharge teaching so the home plan is realistic and sustainable.

Why the goal is partially met

The care plan explains that the memory-technique goal is only partially met in a single visit because Esther can practice and repeat strategies now, but long-term carryover must be reassessed at later visits and before discharge.

FAQ

Common questions about Esther Park Shadow Health cognition results

She reports a pounding headache behind the forehead, difficulty concentrating, nausea, confusion, and short-term memory loss. The transcript also shows that she feels different lately and recognizes that her memory is slipping.

Esther lives with her daughter Jennifer and depends on increasing reminders for bathing, routine medication timing, and overall home safety. She has reduced cooking because she fears forgetting to turn the stove off, which makes the caregiver and discharge-planning elements especially important.

The case uses family-reported confusion, self-reported memory gaps, occasional missed medication doses, and poor performance on the recall portion of the cognition testing. The word-recall section is especially important because Esther later remembers only one of the three words.

The education material addresses missed quinapril doses, the need for reminder tools such as pill containers and calendars, the effect of ginseng on blood pressure, and the high sodium content of canned soup. Those are strong page topics because they come directly from the source files.

Yes. The updated content is now based on the transcript, subjective data, objective data, documentation, education and empathy notes, and care plan that you attached, rather than generic cognition-page copy.