Answer to Question 1
C
Feedback:
It is important to inform visually impaired clients about the food in each mouthful, to help them eat properly. The importance of developing a rapport with the client is not specific to visually impaired clients. It is necessary to provide liquid or soft diets to clients who have missing teeth or have had recent oral surgery. When caring for clients who have difficulty chewing and swallowing food, the nurse must determine that the client has swallowed one portion of food before offering another.
Answer to Question 2
C
Feedback:
To distribute the eye medication over the surface of the eye, the nurse should ask the client to blink his or her eyes, rather than rubbing them. In order to provide a natural reservoir for liquid medication, the nurse makes a pouch in the lower lid by pulling the skin downward over the bony orbit. To prevent injury and blink reflexes, the nurse should not instill medication in the upper eyelid, but should steady the medication container and move it from below the client's line of vision or from the side of the eye.
Suspension feeding.
Treating the breast-feeding mother
Select Signs and Symptoms of Feeding and Eating Disorders
A hot stone placed under the client’s neck.
Breast-Feeding Mothers Have Increased Nutrient Needs
The client is positioned for the examination