During a morning assessment the nurse notes that the oral temperature of an older patient is 96°F (35.6°C). What guide will the nurse use to make decisions about this assessment finding?
A) Older adults are at increased risk for hyperthermia
B) Low temperature constitutes a risk to cardiac health
C) Older adults often lose body heat in response to infection
D) The normal body temperature of older adults is often lower than that of younger people
D
Feedback:
While it is true that older adults are often at risk from temperature fluctuations in general and hyperthermia in particular, this should not guide the nurse's interpretation of the assessment as much as the fact that older adults often have lower core temperatures. Fever constitutes a cardiac risk, and while older adults may fail to become febrile during an infection, they are not noted to develop hypothermia as a result.
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