NCEMI eTools

Mini mental status exam

Score: 0 Answer out of bounds for assessibility
Assessment

Ask patient "What is the year? Season, date, day, month"

Ask patient "Where are we? State, country, town, hospital, floor?"

Tell patient "I'd like to test your memory; say these words: boat, cucumber, wire"

Tell patient "Begin with 100 and count backwards by 7" Answers = (93, 86, 79, 72, 65)

Tell patient "Can you name the three objects I named before?"

Tell patient "Name these items" and point to a pencil and a watch

	Gets neither one right 0 points
	Gets 1 of 2 right 1 points
	Gets them both right 2 points

Tell patient, "Repeat the following: 'No ifs, ands, or buts.'"

	Does not say it properly 0 points
	Says it properly 1 points

Tell patient "Take a paper in your right hand, fold it in half, and put it on the floor."

	Does none of these 3 things 0 points
	Does 1 of these 3 things 1 points
	Does 2 of these 3 things 2 points
	Does 3 of these 3 things 3 points

Tell the patient "Read and obey the following:" and write "CLOSE YOUR EYES"

	Patient does not close eyes 0 points
	Patient closes eyes 1 points

Tell the patient "Write a sentence."

	Patient does not write a sentence 0 points
	Patient writes a sentence 1 points

Draw interlocking pentagons, and have patient copy it.

	Patient does not copy the design properly 0 points
	Patient copies the design properly 1 points