While working in a senior center associated with a major manufacturing company, the nurse as-sumes responsibility for assessing clients for expected role transitions. The transition that would receive priority in this setting would be:
1. Loss of sexuality
2. Immobility
3. Retirement
4. Caregiver support
ANS: 3
Expected role transitions include retirement, loss of a spouse, grandparenting role, and role re-versal. Retirement often has a major impact on the individual if much of the individual's identity was job-related. Options 1 and 2 are not role transitions. Option 4 would be a role for the health professional to assume.
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