For a patient with moderate dementia who develops increased restlessness and agitation, a nurse should assess the patient for anything that might be causing discomfort.
The nurse's first course of action should be to check the patient for any triggering reasons because increased motor activity is frequently the patient with dementia's only means of responding to factors like pain.
For the patient with moderate dementia, reorientation is unlikely to be beneficial. Although it might be necessary to assign a nursing assistant to stay with the patient, any physical changes that might be the source of the agitation should be attended to first.
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