When caring for elderly clients, appropriate nursing interventions to facilitate maintenance of normal voiding habits include:(Select all that apply) Standard Text: Select all that apply
1. Assisting the client to lie down to void
2. Providing running water within hearing distance of the client may stimulate voiding reflex
3. Offer toileting assistance at the client's usual voiding times
4. Teach Kegel exercises
5. Regulate fluid intake
2,3
Rationale: Assist the client to a normal position for voiding; these positions allow gravity to enhance to movement of urine
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