A nurse evaluates the plan of care for a client who experienced an ischemic stroke. Which of the following assessment findings should signal the nurse to the possibility that the client has developed dysphagia?
A) The client complains of being excessively hungry.
B) The client drinks large amounts of water with meals.
C) The client pockets food in the affected cheek during meals.
D) The client prefers to sit in a high Fowler's position after eating.
Ans: C
Pocketed food suggests dysphagia. Sitting upright after meals prevents, rather than indicates, dysphagia and neither hunger nor high fluid intake is indicative of dysphagia.
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