When the rehabilitative nurse is working with a gerontologic client and focuses on the many obstacles that the client has already successfully overcome, the nurse is exhibiting which of the following guidelines for rehabilitative care?
A) Provide time and flexibility.
B) Recognize and praise accomplishments.
C) Prevent complications.
D) Emphasize function rather than dysfunction.
D
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When the nurse focuses on the many obstacles that the client has already successfully overcome, the nurse is emphasizing function rather than dysfunction. Providing time and flexibility, recognizing and praising accomplishments, and preventing complications are not related to the obstacles that the client has already successfully overcome.
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