Author Question: The nurse is planning care for a middle-aged adult. What should the nurse identify as a major risk ... (Read 94 times)

torybrooks · **on:** Jun 25, 2018

The nurse is planning care for a middle-aged adult. What should the nurse identify as a major risk factor for this client?

1. Weight loss
2. Decreased physical activity
3. Multiple sex partners
4. Vitamin deficiency

Question 2

A young adult client has come to the clinic who is unkempt and appears to be depressed. The client tells the nurse that her marriage failed and her spouse has taken the children out of state.

What should the nurse recognize as being a major concern for this client?

1. The client's ability to pay the bill.
2. The client's ability to follow a treatment regime.
3. The potential for self-harm.
4. The potential for violence.

JYan · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 25, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Answer: 2

1. Due to a decrease in basal metabolic rate and often activity level as well, the middle adult is at risk for weight gain and obesity.
2. Due to a decrease in basal metabolic rate and often activity level as well, the middle adult is at risk for weight gain and obesity.
3. Having multiple sex partners is not an identified risk factor for clients within this age range.
4. Vitamin deficiency is not an identified risk factor for clients within this age range.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: 3

1. While nurses need to be fiscally responsible, this client needs help, and that should be the nurse's first concern.
2. There is no evidence to support that the client will not be able to follow treatment regime.
3. The inability of the young adult to cope with stressors may result in suicide, which ranks next to accidents as a major cause of death in this age group.
4. The client is described as depressed, not aggressive, and so is more apt to try to do self-harm than harm to others.