The home health nurse assesses a family who is caring for a person with a cognitive deficit for responses that indicates exhaustion, which include: (Select all that apply.)
a. irritability with other family members and the patient.
b. report of sleep disturbances.
c. anger at patient and self.
d. depression.
e. fatigue.
A, B, C, D, E
All options are characteristics of exhaustion in caregivers to the cognitively impaired.
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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