A client who has Parkinson's disease has a nursing diagnosis of Self-care deficit related to immobility, tremors, and bradykinesia. Which nursing intervention is appropriate?
a. Teach the client's family to administer cleansing enemas.
b. Limit client attempts at self-care, since this activity tires the client.
c. Perform personal care activities for the client.
d. Teach the client and family methods to increase the client's ability to perform self-care.
D
Nursing care includes monitoring the client's physiologic and emotional status, preventing falls, ensuring that medication is administered according to a precise schedule, providing active and passive range-of-motion exercises, and helping the client manage self-care deficits. Helping the client's family to understand the condition is important to ensure physical and emotional support for the client.
You might also like to view...
An ICU nurse does not follow policy when administering a medication intravenously. Which would be the most appropriate action by the manager to assist the employee?
1. Provide written instructions for administering the medication. 2. Remediate the situation with the ICU staff. 3. Provide a copy of the policy and discuss the rationale for the policy as it relates to client care. 4. Reprimand the ICU nurse for giving the medication.
A patient with hypoxia is at risk for disruption of the sodium potassium pump. Which would the nurse expect if this occurs?
1. Decreased serum potassium 2. Cell death 3. Increase in the cells' ability to use active transport 4. Decreased extracellular fluid
The nurse notes that one therapy assigned for a client today is reminiscence therapy. The nurse suspects that the client has which of the following diagnoses?
1. Auditory and visual hallucinations 2. Schizophrenia 3. Manic-depression 4. Alzheimer's disease
Calling a patient "gramps" may be considered psychological abuse.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)