Abstract
disorder (such as schizophrenia) which is due to psychosocial, psychosexual, and developmental factors. At this point you may be asking why it is important for nurses to assess the type of confusion. Priarily, it is because nurses are with patients a greater amount of time than physicians and, therefore, can be instrumental in changing therapy early. If a nurse notices a patient exhibiting early signs of organic confusion, she can withhold such medications as barbiturates, which tend MS. MORRIS (Presbyterian-University Hospital School of Nursing, Pittsburgh) has had experience in medical, neurosurgical, and psychiatric nursing. She is now a student in the baccalaureate program at the University of California School of Nursing in San Francisco. For two and one-half years, she was a staff nurse on the unit where Ms. Rhodes was supervising
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