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cherise1989

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A home care nurse was working with a 73-year-old woman who lives alone. What would be the most therapeutic intervention by the nurse?
 
  a. Complimenting the client on her cooking and superb housekeeping skills
  b. Conveying to the client the importance of planning and prepaying her funeral
  c. Encouraging her in her hobbies of scrapbooking and writing her autobiography
  d. Suggesting that the client consider buying long-term care insurance for future need

Question 2

Every day a 70-year-old hospitalized woman read the newspaper. She expressed to the nurse that she was saddened after this activity. What is the probable reason that reading the newspaper was upsetting her?
 
  a. She disliked the articles about the bad things happening locally and nationally.
  b. She disagrees with the political slant of the newspapers.
  c. Obituaries of her friends represent the loss of part of her past.
  d. Reading about recent military actions overseas was saddening.



Leostella20

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Answer to Question 1

ANS: C

Answer to Question 2

ANS: C



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