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bucstennis@aim.com

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on: Jul 11, 2018
During a home visit, a nurse is assessing the nutritional awareness of an older adult patient who lives alone. The nurse is most effective in obtaining objective information when
 
  a. asking to see what types of foods the pa-tient keeps readily available.
  b. reviewing the components of a healthy diet with the patient.
  c. asking the patient to describe what he or she ate for all three meals yesterday.
  d. observing the patient eat a meal that he or she has prepared.

Question 2

A patient from a culture that differs from that of the nurse is hospitalized and near death. What action by the nurse best demonstrates cultural care preservation?
 
  a. Allowing the family to remain at the bed-side
  b. Pinning a healing amulet to the patient's gown
  c. Offering the family food and drink in the room
  d. Giving the family time to be alone with the patient


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brittrenee

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Reply #1 on: Jul 11, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Objective information is best obtained when observing general appearance and various body system indicators of nutritional status. Note height, weight, and fit of clothes. If possible, observe the older adult eating a meal. Food available in the home does not indicate the patient's knowledge, as someone else may have bought the food. Asking the patient for information is requesting subjective data. Reviewing a healthy diet does not allow the patient to demonstrate knowledge.

Answer to Question 2

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Cultural care preservation refers to those assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling profes-sional actions and decisions that help people of a particular culture to retain and maintain their well-being, to recover from illness, or to face handicaps or death. Allowing the patient to have healing artifacts important in his or her culture nearby best demonstrates this concept. The other actions are caring but do not demonstrate this principle.


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Reply 2 on: Jul 11, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)

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