The nurse is caring for a client in a long-term care facility. What approach should the nurse use to facilitate reminiscing?
1. Encouraging client to focus on her current situation
2. Helping the client to remember what activities she did in the past week
3. Reminding the client what her current strengths are
4. Asking the client to talk about her childhood
Answer: 4
1. Remembrance of recent activities would only involve recall of short-term memory.
2. Remembrance of recent activities would only involve recall of short-term memory.
3. Remembrance of strengths does not facilitate reminiscing.
4. Reminiscing involves recall of past events that are significant to the individual.
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