Answer to Question 1
Ans: A
Age-related changes of the inner ear include loss of hair cells, reduction of blood supply, diminution of endolymph production, decreased basilar membrane flexibility, degeneration of spiral ganglion cells, and loss of neurons in the cochlear nuclei. These inner ear changes result in the degenerative hearing impairment termed presbycusis. Cerumen often becomes more viscous with age, and occlusion of the Eustachian tubes is not a normal, age-related change. Changes to the external ear structures are not implicated in age-related hearing loss.
Answer to Question 2
Ans: B
The first step would be to determine what the problem is. Free testing is not comprehensive in its evaluative scope. Telling the client she is lucky to be living alone at 85 years of age is nontherapeutic communication and suggesting that the woman use closed-caption television does not address the hearing issue.
The tone of the nurse-patient introduction sets the stage for the patient interview and patient care
The nurse conducts the health history as the first step in the nursing assessment
The nurse needs to note the source of the patient health history
Nurse palpating the patient's brachial artery
The Kingsley plantation, on Fort George Island in Jacksonville, Florida. Zephaniah Kingsley, the own
U.S. Life Expectancy by Year of Birth