Based on current data, when presenting an older adult's discharge teaching plan, the nurse includes the patient's
a. nonrelated caretaker.
b. paid caregiver.
c. family member.
d. intuitional representative.
C
Less than 4% of older adults live in a formal health care environment. The majority of the geria-tric population lives at home or with family members.
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Through a medication error, a client is experiencing an overdose of atropine sulfate. The nurse should:
a. place a padded tongue blade between the client's teeth. b. prepare to administer intravenous physostigmine. c. obtain blood specimens for electrolyte levels. d. prepare to administer intramuscular hyoscyamine sulfate.
A client suffering from paranoid schizophrenia imitates everything the nurses and doctors do and say. The nurse knows that this client is exhibiting:
A) Echopraxia and alogia. B) Echolalia and bizarre behavior. C) Echopraxia and echolalia. D) Catatonia and alogia.
For psychiatric nurses in the 1980s and 1990s, the scope of practice began to change to include:
a. psychiatric care and medical care given by the home care nurse. b. new advances in the fields of psychobiology and technology. c. psychoanalytical therapy provided by the psychiatric nurse in the outpatient setting. d. new advances in the psychodynamic model of therapy made by the psychiatric nurse in the inpatient setting.
Some studies cited in a literature review may be decades old. The researcher may decide to use studies from this far back because these studies
a. are groundbreaking or landmark studies. b. are particularly well-written studies. c. are peer-reviewed, relevant studies. d. are still considered current studies.