While working in a senior center associated with a major ...

[Mr.Thesaxman]

While working in a senior center associated with a major manufacturing company, the nurse as-sumes responsibility for assessing clients for expected role transitions. The transition that would receive priority in this setting would be:
 
  1. Loss of sexuality
  2. Immobility
  3. Retirement
  4. Caregiver support

Question 2

Nursing interventions to assist the adult in achieving ego integrity include:
 
  1. Encouraging a life review of triumphs and disappointments
  2. Aiding in fusion of one's identity with another
  3. Focusing on embracing the future
  4. Assisting in the use of creativity

[kaykay69]

Answer to Question 1

ANS: 3
Expected role transitions include retirement, loss of a spouse, grandparenting role, and role re-versal. Retirement often has a major impact on the individual if much of the individual's identity was job-related. Options 1 and 2 are not role transitions. Option 4 would be a role for the health professional to assume.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: 1
A review of accomplishments and disappointments in one's life is considered necessary to the development of ego integrity. Option 2 is associated with the development of intimacy. Options 3 and 4 are associated with generativity.