A critical care nurse is documenting her assessment of a client she is caring for. The client is status postresection of a brain tumor. The nurse documents that the client is flaccid on the left. What does this mean?
A) The client has an abnormal posture response to stimuli.
B) The client is not responding to stimuli.
C) The client is hyperresponsive on the left.
D) The client is hyporesponsive on the left.
B
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Flaccidity is when the client makes no motor response to stimuli. Flaccidity is a motor assessment.
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