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An 83-year-old patient is brought in by ambulance from a long-term care facility. The patient's symptoms are weakness, lethargy, incontinence, and a change in mental status
The nurse knows that emergencies in older adults may be more difficult to manage. Why would this be true? A) Older adults may have an altered response to treatment. B) Older adults are often reluctant to adhere to prescribed treatment. C) Older adults have difficulty giving a health history. D) Older adults often stigmatize their peers who use the ED.
The nurse is teaching parents of a preschool child strategies to implement when the child delays going to bed. What strategy should the nurse recommend?
a. Use consistent bedtime rituals. b. Give in to attention-seeking behavior. c. Take the child into the parent's bed for an hour. d. Allow the child to stay up past the decided bedtime.
As a nurse manager, you identify that a shift in nursing care models might increase patient and staff satisfaction and avoid downsizing. Administration is reluctant to adopt this approach because downsizing is seen as critical to reduction of costs
To leverage your ideas, you: a. Ask staff to send e-mails to administration encouraging consideration of your option. b. Invite a senior member of administration to your staff meeting, so you can tell him what you are planning. c. Write a letter of complaint to a member of the institutional board about the lack of openness of the administration. d. Identify influential members of your nurse manager group with similar ideas and request an opportunity to meet with administration to discuss options.
A nurse is teaching a patient who is a recent immigrant from an Asian culture. The patient listens politely to discharge instructions and agrees to follow them
Two days later, the patient is readmitted, and the nurse is surprised to find none of the discharge instructions have been followed. The nurse would most likely conclude the patient a. did not have the resources to adhere to the directions. b. is noncompliant or he or she would have asked questions. c. lacked enough knowledge to follow through the instructions. d. was too embarrassed to indicate a lack of understanding.