A patient with diabetes says that he needs a hearing aid because he cannot hear well, and everything sounds garbled and distant. What type of hearing loss should the nurse suspect?
a. Mixed hearing loss
b. Conductive hearing loss
c. Central hearing loss
d. Sensorineural hearing loss
D
A patient with long-term diabetes may have a sensorineural hearing loss that is not helped by hearing aids.
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
A nursing student was talking to a group of high school students interested in nursing about how Florence Nightingale from the 19th century was called the founder of modern nursing
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A. 0.436 mL B. 43,600 mL C. 436 mL D. 4,360 mL