A patient is not competent to manage financial affairs. What legal recourse does the older person have?
a. Guardian
b. Conservator
c. Health care proxy
d. Social worker
B
A conservator is appointed by the courts to handle a patient's monetary affairs. A guardian helps with nonmonetary issues. Health care proxy and social workers do not manage financial affairs.
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Which of the following is most effective for the nurse to use when evaluating the patient's brother's understanding? A) Ask questions such as "Do you understand?" B) Ask the patient's brother to demonstrate the procedure. C) Ask the patient's brother to document the technique. D) Ask the patient's brother questions related to the procedure.
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When a nurse asks a newly admitted patient to describe social supports, the patient says, "My parents died last year and I have no family. I am newly divorced, and my former in-laws blame me
I don't have many friends because most people my age just want to go out drinking." Which action will the nurse apply? a. Advise the patient that being so particular about potential friends reduces social contact. b. Suggest using the Internet as a way to find supportive others with similar values. c. Encourage the patient to begin dating again, perhaps with members of the church. d. Discuss how divorce support groups could increase coping and social support.