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The nurse is reviewing a plan of care for an older person diagnosed with Lewy body dementia. When reviewing the care plan, the nurse would expect to see which nursing diagnosis specific to Lewy body dementia?
 
  A) Risk for violence, related to agitation
  B) Self-esteem disturbance, related to hopelessness
  C) Altered mobility, related to shuffling gait
  D) Altered thought processes, related to delusions

Question 2

Which of the following would be inconsistent as a diagnostic manifestation of Alzheimer's disease?
 
  A) Neurofibrillary tangles
  B) Reduced brain activity
  C) Neuritic plaques in the brain
  D) Increased synaptic nerve transmission


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Reply #1 on: Jul 19, 2018
Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

D


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