When assessing a client with dementia, the nurse identifies that the client is experiencing hallucinations. Based on the nurse's understanding of this disorder, which type of hallucination would the nurse expect as most common?
A) Auditory
B) Visual
C) Gustatory
D) Olfactory
Question 2
A nurse is using motivational therapy with an alcoholic client, Susan, who is unwilling to consider changing her drinking behavior. Susan emphatically states, I am not an alcoholic; you can't make me stop drinking.
Which response would be most appropriate for the nurse to make in response to Susan's statement?
A) You have to stop drinking and driving; you could kill someone.
B) You're right, you're not an alcoholic.
C) You should consider what you are doing to your marital relationship.
D) You're the only one who can make yourself stop drinking.
Critical thinking involves analysis in which the nurse examines patient data available from a variet
Client position when assessing jugular vein distention.
The nurse uses a noninvasive bladder ultrasound to measure the client’s bladder volume.
Application of an ostomy bag or pouch: B, An ostomy nurse applying an ostomy bag to a stoma;
Nurse administering enteral nutrition through a feeding tube.
Positioning the client