A nurse is assigned to work with a group of clients who have chronic confusion. The nurse anticipates that these clients will:
1. have loss of memory but retain judgment and planning skills.
2. exhibit loss of memory but have no change in personality or affect.
3. have impaired abstract thinking ability but a higher threshold for stress.
4. exhibit loss of memory, impaired abstract thinking, and impaired problem-solving ability.
ANS: 4
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