List five factors that increase a patient's risk of falls.
What will be an ideal response?
Impaired mobility, medications, disorientation, impaired vision or hearing, misjudging distance, weakness or dizziness, changing position too rapidly, encountering hazards when walking, walking in a poorly lit area. (Other answers may also be correct.)
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hen developing a teaching plan for a patient who had an embolic stroke, the nurse considers which history as a significant risk factor?
1. Hypertension 2. Use of anticoagulants 3. History of atherosclerosis of cerebral arteries 4. Atrial fibrillation
Which of the following is a current trend in families or family living?
1. People marrying earlier 2. Reduction in the divorce rate 3. People having more children 4. More people choosing to live alone
Which of the following statements best describes the phenomenon of "failure to thrive," sometimes diagnosed in the elderly?
A) Failure to thrive is a lack of financial, emotional, and physical stamina experienced in the older adult years. B) Failure to thrive is a syndrome that includes the elderly person's inability to maintain erection during sexual intercourse. C) Failure to thrive is commonly diagnosed in elderly individuals who have recently moved from institutional settings into the homes of their children or other caretakers. D) Failure to thrive is a syndrome that results from disease or stress and includes symptoms of unexplained weight loss and deterioration in functional abilities.
The physician has ordered ipratropium (Atrovent) for the client. What is a priority assessment question for the nurse to ask prior to administering this medication?
1. "Are you allergic to soy?" 2. "Do you have diabetes mellitus?" 3. "Do you have seizures?" 4. "Do you have gout?"