An elderly client is аdmitted frоm а nursing hоme with new оnset confusion аnd lethargy.Vitals signs are B/p 140/80, P 90, RR 22 and Temperature is 99.2 F.Client has a history of incontinence and has a foley catheter in place to drainage.Lungs are clear to auscultation, bowels sounds normal-tends to be constipated.No other assessment abnormalities.What does the nurse suspect may be the cause of the sudden change in this client's condition?
Pаssаge A When Senаtоr Chuck Grassley first gоt intо politics, Ike Eisenhower was president of the United States. It was 1959, the same year the first transcontinental commercial flight made it from Los Angeles to New York’s Idlewild Airport, later to be renamed in honor of John F. Kennedy. Late in the year, IBM introduced the 7090, a milestone computer model that relied on “transistors, not vacuum tubes.” Grassley served in the Iowa House, then served three terms in the U. S. House. He’s now in his seventh term in the Senate. And he announced last September, a week after his 88th birthday, that he’s running again. That will make him 95 years old at the end of his next term. Simply put, this is too damn old to be doing this job. It’s too old to be doing just about any job. While mandatory retirements are mostly verboten in the United States, there are some professions with such intense physical and mental demands, that require such high-stakes decision-making and mental acuity, that we’ve decided they’re just different. The FAA mandates that pilots retire at 65. Their colleagues in air-traffic control are out at 56, though they can get exceptions to work until they’re 61. Most police departments show employees the door in their 60s. At white-shoe law firms, partners are often pointed to the exit sign by age 68. Foreign-service employees at the State Department are out at 65. The overall purpose of this passage is to
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Pаssаge B Trаumatic brain injuries are assоciated with cоgnitive decline later in life, and a sharper drоp in cognition as we age, a study of twins who served in World War II shows.There is robust research demonstrating a relationship between head injuries and cognitive impairment or dementia later in life, “but I do not know of any others that use a twin-study design,” said Holly Elser, an epidemiologist and resident physician in neurology at the University of Pennsylvania who peer-reviewed the study.The study published in Neurology on Wednesday found that individuals who had a traumatic brain injury were more likely to have lower scores on cognitive tests when they were about 70 years old.They were also more likely to have rapidly declining scores after their first test if they had multiple traumatic brain injuries, lost consciousness because of a head injury or were 25 or older when the injury happened.“Even if it’s just a single traumatic brain injury, we now know that it led to worse cognitive outcomes later in life,” said Marianne Chanti-Ketterl, the lead author of the study and an assistant professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Duke University School of Medicine.The study of identical and fraternal twins allows researchers to compare participants to each other while controlling for some, if not all, of the underlying genetic factors and some of the twins’ early life conditions. Identical twins share 100 percent of their genes, while fraternal twins share about half. Which choice most effectively summarizes the passage?
[Nоte: Stevie Wоnder аnd Rаy Chаrles, well-knоwn musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries, both lost their vision during early childhood.] Passage E The music of Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles supports the common belief that losing one sense can enhance another. Italian researchers have better evidence. They find that after only 90 minutes, blindfolded people can develop a keener sense of touch—a sign that the portion of the brain dedicated to vision can help process other senses. Although such neurological flexibility used to be considered a feature of a developing brain, “we know now that, even in adults, it is possible to find plastic interactions. If you change the input, you can recruit a part of the brain for a different function,” says Salvatore Aglioti, a neurologist at the University of Rome La Sapienza and the Santa Lucia Foundation. Aglioti and a colleague asked 28 test subjects to place their fingers on a series of plates marked with grooves of varying sizes, with the width of the grooves equal to the distance between them. Some of the grooves were so fine that the surface of the plate felt smooth. After being blindfolded, however, people were able to feel grooves that were more subtle than the smallest ones they could discern in a previous test. Repeating the test 130 minutes after the blindfolds were removed, the subjects’ sense of touch had reset to normal. “Forgetting is as important as learning,” Aglioti says. “If we don’t forget quickly, we don’t have room enough for other functions.” The overall purpose of this passage is to