A graduate nurse is working with her preceptor in a long-term care facility. The graduate nurse asks her preceptor to list the most serious problems that she must watch out for in patients with dementia.
Which of the following is the most appropriate response by the preceptor?
A) Patients with dementia need assistance with everything; make sure that your nursing assistants are doing everything for them.
B) Patients with dementia may have become aggressive, so you need to make sure that you medicate them when they act out.
C) Patients with dementia may have problems with overmedication and polypharmacy; you need to really pay attention to the medications the patients are taking and their responses to those medications.
D) 'Patients with dementia may need their schedules adjusted each day depending on how they are acting.
Question 2
When caring for a frail older patient with diabetes who has recently been diagnosed with a UTI, the nurse will expect the physician to prescribe antibiotics
A) at a higher dose and for a longer period of time.
B) at a lower dose for a longer period of time.
C) at a higher dose for a shorter period of time.
D) at a lower dose for a shorter period of time.
A nurse adjusts the rate of a client’s IV.
Solution (Polynomial Long Division)
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