title: Cognitive systems: nursing assessment and management in the critical care environment.
abstract: In-depth knowledge of cognitive systems allows the critical care nurse to incorporate that information into an expanded assessment. This in-depth nursing assessment enables the nurse to identify intact and deficient cognitive systems and quantify the deficits. Astute assessment is fundamental to planning appropriate interventions and permits more specific deficit-related interventions by the critical care nurse.
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Boss
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D003071:Cognition; D003210:Concept Formation; D003422:Critical Care; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory; D008606:Mental Processes; D009730:Nursing Assessment