A physically frail elderly client with mild cognitive impairments needs services of a facility that can provide supervision and safety as well as recreation and social interaction. The family cares for this client during the evening and night. Which type of facility should the nurse suggest to meet this client’s needs?

A primary health care provider writes these new prescriptions for a resident in a skilled nursing facility: 2 g sodium diet, restraint as needed, limit fluids to 1800 mL daily, continue antihypertensive medication, milk of magnesia 30 mL PO once if no bowel movement for 3 days. The nurse should implement what action regarding these prescriptions?

An adult says to the nurse, “The cancer in my neck spread in only 2 months. I’ve been cursed my whole life. Maybe if I had been more generous with others …” Considering the stages of grief described by Kübler-Ross, which stage is evident?

A staff nurse asks a hospice nurse, “Who should be referred for hospice care?” What is the hospice nurse’s best response?

A client living in community housing for the elderly says, “I don’t go to the senior citizen’s club. They play cards and talk about the past because that’s all they can do.” The nurse analyzes these remarks to represent what client related characteristic?

A cognitively impaired client has been a widow for 30 years. This client frantically tries to leave the facility, saying, “I have to go home to cook dinner before my husband arrives from work.” To intervene with validation therapy, what should the nurse say?

Emergency response workers arrive in a community after a large-scale natural disaster. What is the workers’ first action?

A client says, “I know I have a brain tumor despite the results of the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The radiologist is wrong. People who have brain tumors vomit, and yesterday I vomited all day.” Which response by the nurse fosters cognitive reframing?

What is the best comment for a nurse to begin an interview with an elderly client?

List one bacterial cause of conjunctivitis.  Give both the genus and species name written with the correct nomenclature rules. (2 points)