An older patient is being admitted to a long-term care facility. The nurse recognizes that the primary purpose of the initial geriatric health assessment is to
a. identify the patient's physiologic base-lines.
b. ultimately create a plan of care that pre-vents disability and dependence.
c. initiate the therapeutic nurse-patient rela-tionship.
d. document self-care deficiencies that the patient exhibits.
B
Specifically, the purpose of older adult assessment is to identify patient strengths and limitations so that effective and appropriate interventions can be delivered to support, promote, or restore optimum function and to prevent disability and dependence. Physiologic baseline, therapeutic nurse-patient relationship, and self-care deficits are all important aspects of the assessment but not the major purpose for it.
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