The RN teaches the 89 year old with cognitive impairment and his family that the patient’s overflow urinary incontinence is an involuntary loss of urine associated with over-distention of the bladder. The nurse feels the teaching has been successful when the family member states:

Your patient is admitted with heart failure and has comorbidities of dementia and depression. You want to assess decisional capacity. The factors you are testing include: 1) ability to make a choice, 2) repeat information in their own words, 3) weigh options, and 4):

There are several options for non-life-prolonging care available to people who do not desire and cannot benefit from life-prolonging care. Which of the following is an example of life-prolonging care rather than non-life-prolonging care?

The Older Americans Act of 1965 first established services to support:

Which of the following laboratory results is most strongly associated with good nutrition?

Mr. Harrow is a 76-year-old man in the last stages of kidney failure. His body is undergoing a complex metabolic process characterized by loss of muscle mass and fat. The nurse caring for Mr. Harrow in the hospital knows that he is experiencing:

Which of the following strategies is the strongest standard of care for prevention of UTI?

Mr. G is going for cataract surgery. The nurse explains to him and his partner, Mr. B, that she is giving which type of eye drop (gtt) to decrease intraocular pressure?

One of the two major markers of malnutrition, ________ is described as “a syndrome of progressive and generalized loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength, which increases the risk of adverse outcomes, such as physical disability, poor quality of life, and even death.”

A client has urge incontinence. The nurse educates the patient on bladder training to address: