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kfurse

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A 23-year-old client calls an eating disorders clinic for an appointment. The client was hospitalized and diagnosed with anorexia nervosa when she was 14 years old.
 
  At the clinic, the client tells a nurse that she has been taking laxatives every day and that some days after eating she will self-induce vomiting. She knows this is not good but feels powerless to stop it. She is 56 tall and weighs 105 pounds. The nurse should base this client's plan of care on which primary nursing diagnosis?
  A) Ineffective denial
  B) Disturbed body image
  C) Low self-esteem
  D) Imbalanced nutrition, less than body requirements

Question 2

A nurse is planning care for clients in a long-term care facility. The nurse is thinking critically about the differences between dementia and delirium. Which statement is true?
 
  A) Delirium is a chronic, typically irreversible deterioration of intellectual capacities caused by an organic disease.
  B) Dementia is always identified by electroencephalogra phic (EEG) changes.
  C) Delirium is an altered level of consciousness that is often acute and reversible.
  D) Dementia begins in old age and has a downhill course.



laurnthompson

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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

C



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