A patient lives in a long-term care facility and has mild dementi
a. The patient has been showing interest in another resident. What action by the nurse is best?
a. Determining if the resident has deci-sion-making capacity.
b. Refusing to allow the residents to be alone together.
c. Asking the resident's family if the rela-tionship is okay.
d. Providing time for the residents to be to-gether.
A
The first step is to determine if the resident (actually both) has decision-making capacity. If so, the nurse allows them to be together and provides privacy when possible. If one or both residents are not capable of making decisions, the nurse enlists the opinion of that resident's family.
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