A geriatric nurse is performing an assessment of an 85-year-old patient. The nurse realizes that what particular change is an age-related effect on the renal or urinary system?
A) Increased ability to concentrate urine
B) Increased bladder capacity
C) Urinary incontinence
D) Decreased glomerular filtration rate
D
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Suicide is attempted three times more frequently by ____ but is more often successfully completed by ____
a. Adult men, women b. Adult women, men c. Adult fathers, mothers d. Adolescent mothers, fathers
The school nurse is helping to teach a high school science class about the anatomy of the eye. A student asks what the biggest part of the eye is. What would the school nurse reply?
A) "The posterior chamber." B) "The hyaloid membrane." C) "The ocular fundus." D) "The anterior chamber."
The group that must accept role reversal with their parents is the:
1. younger adult group. 2. old young adults. 3. middle-aged adult. 4. older age adult.
You observe a middle school class during a lecture on physical fitness. You notice that one boy spends much of his time biting on his lip or on his pencil. You observe a cigarette in his shirt pocket
According to the psychoanalytic model, this child is MOST likely to be characterized as: a. appropriately expressing teenage impulses b. demonstrating anal fixation and concentration c. misdirecting and expressing sexual energy d. preoccupied with or fixated on the oral phase