The client need that assumes priority when implementing care for ...

[sarasara]

The client need that assumes priority when implementing care for a client with late-stage dementia is
 
  a. meaningful verbal communication.
  b. promotion of self-care activities.
  c. maintenance of nutrition and hydration.
  d. prevention of the client from wandering.

Question 2

A cognitively impaired client who has been a widow for 30 years is frantically trying to leave the
  unit, saying I have to go home to start dinner before my husband comes home from work..
 
  To
  intervene with validation therapy, the nurse should say
  a. You must come away from the door..
  b. You have been a widow for many years..
  c. You want to go home to get your husband's dinner..
  d. Was your husband abusive when you did not have his dinner ready on time?

[emily12345]

Answer to Question 1

C
In late-stage dementia, the client often seems to have forgotten how to eat, chew, and swallow.
Nutrition and hydration needs must be met if the client is to live.

Answer to Question 2

C
Validation therapy meets the client where she or he is at the moment and acknowledges the
client's wishes. Validation does not seek to redirect, reorient, or probe.
The other options do not validate client feelings.

[sarasara]

Correct answers!

[emily12345]

Great! Please up vote