A graduate nurse is nervous about caring for older adult patients because of the personality changes that occur with aging. How should the nurse's preceptor respond to this statement?
1. "Personality is relatively stable throughout life."
2. "The losses many elderly experience understandably will impact their personality."
3. "The personalities of the elderly do undergo some significant changes after the eighth decade of life.
4. "After retirement, feelings of disuse cause many elderly to begin demonstrating personality changes."
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Rationale: Personality is stable throughout adult life and rarely do healthy older people show signs of personality change during their final years.
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a. overseeing schools of nursing within the states. b. enforcing the individual state's nurse practice acts. c. disciplining nurses. d. all of the above.
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