A nurse assesses a newly admitted patient to a nursing home using the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) and rates the patient at 20 . What action by the nurse is best?
a. Arrange admission to a rehabilitation center.
b. Plan care for a nearly dependent person.
c. Plan care for a nearly independent person.
d. Tells the family the patient is cognitively impaired.
B
Eighteen measures are accounted for in the FIM with scores ranging from 1 (dependent) to 7 (independent). A score of 20 indicates near total dependence. The FIM does not measure cogni-tive status.
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