A nurse performing an initial assessment might appropriately educate a patient
1. With poor dental hygiene that it can lead to a greater risk for heart disease.
2. Who is not oriented to place or time about the possibility that he might have early-onset Alzheimer disease.
3. With congestive heart failure that he might want to look into being put on the transplant candidate list.
4. With a degenerative neurological disease about the benefits of making a living will.
ANS: 1
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