Author Question: A nurse at a health care facility suggests the use of parallel bars for a client who has recently ... (Read 17 times)

Themember4 · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

A nurse at a health care facility suggests the use of parallel bars for a client who has recently been fitted with a prosthetic limb. How would parallel bars most significantly help this client?

A) By providing support if the client loses balance
B) By improving the client's lower body strength
C) By helping the client to practice ambulating
D) By enabling the client to increase confidence

Question 2

Through experience, a nurse has found that the judicious application of affective touch can benefit clients in certain circumstances.

A) An elderly client who has just learned that her husband has been diagnosed with Alzheimer disease
B) A man whose fractured tibia is being set by the cast team at the bedside
C) A woman who is being extubated in the postanesthetic recovery unit after surgery
D) A client in his early twenties who has a history of schizophrenia and who is experiencing delusions

tuate · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 22, 2018

Answer to Question 1

C
Feedback:
Using parallel bars as hand rails helps the client gain practice when ambulating. Some clients still need assistance to ambulate independently even after performing strengthening exercises. Support, confidence, and lower body strength are secondary considerations in the use of parallel bars, since the major aim is to help the client practice mobilizing.

Answer to Question 2

A
Feedback:
The appropriate use of affective touch is highly subjective and situation dependent. However, clients who are older and who are distraught may be open to the nurse's use of affective touch. A client who is delusional or a person who is partially anesthetized would not benefit from affective touch. Clients who are uncomfortable may benefit from affective touch, but clients who are undergoing acutely painful procedures may not appreciate touch.