What are the adaptations to interventions that the Cognitive Developmental Approach (CDA) to caring for patients with dementia designed to achieve?
a. Increase cognitive abilities.
b. Adapt environment to patient.
c. Offer a wide variety of choices.
d. Abolish irrational fears.
B
The CDA adapts implementations based on the patient's cognitive abilities as they are, modifies the environment, and offers limited choices.
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1. "I should call the doctor if I develop a headache or blurred vision." 2. "Lying on my left side as much as possible is good for the baby." 3. "My urine could become darker and smaller in amount each day." 4. "Pain in the top of my abdomen is a sign my condition is worsening."
The nurse should recommend that persons who have engaged in high-risk behavior be tested for HIV. The responsibilities of persons who are HIV infected include which of the follow-ing? Select all that apply
1. Have regular medical evaluations and follow-ups. 2. Do not donate blood, plasma, body organs, or sperm. 3. Inform health care providers about the HIV infection. 4. Consider the risk of perinatal transmission and follow-up with contraceptive use.
A client is prescribed an oral contraceptive that has less progestin than her previous prescription. What assessment findings would support the use of a contraceptive with less progestin?
Standard Text: Select all that apply. 1. Increased appetite 2. Weight gain 3. Fatigue 4. Hirsutism 5. Anorexia
When the patient is ambulating, the urinary catheter tubing and drainage bag are
A) suspended from an IV pole. B) carried above the level of the bladder. C) placed in a plastic bag for modesty. D) carried below the level of the bladder.