This topic contains a solution. Click here to go to the answer
« previous next »

Author Question: A nurse notes an older adult puts excessive amounts of salt on her food. What intervention by the ... (Read 11 times)

armygirl

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 556
on: Jul 23, 2018
A nurse notes an older adult puts excessive amounts of salt on her food. What intervention by the nurse is best?
 
  a. Teach the adult how salt intake relates to hypertension.
  b. Ask the older adult why she puts so much salt on food.
  c. Encourage the older adult to use less salt on her food.
  d. Explore other herbs and flavor enhancers with the adult.

Question 2

A nurse in the family practice clinic is assessing an older adult who has dementia. The adult daughter/caregiver expresses concern that the parent should no longer be left alone while the daughter is at work. What response by the nurse is best?
 
  a. Refer the family to a social worker.
  b. Encourage the daughter to look into nursing homes
  c. Tell the daughter there are medications for dementia. d.
  Help the daughter explore adult day care options.


Related Topics

Need homework help now?

Ask unlimited questions for free

Ask a Question
Marked as best answer by a Subject Expert

pikon

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 361
Reply #1 on: Jul 23, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: D
Older adults tend to lose their sense of taste and smell. Food becomes less attractive to them and they may respond by adding salt. The nurse who understands this concept will help the older adult explore other flavor enhancers for food. Teaching about the relationship of sodium to hypertension is important but does not address the problem. Encouraging the adult to use less salt does not give her a strategy to do so. Asking why questions is a communication barrier that often causes people to become defensive.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
Adult day care facilities offer care of the older person during the working hours. This might be a good option for the family. A social worker can help, but the nurse should be active in problem solving with the daughter. Medications are available for dementia, but dementia remains a progressive disorder, so this does not help solve the problem. A nursing home may not yet be needed.


armygirl

  • Member
  • Posts: 556
Reply 2 on: Jul 23, 2018
:D TYSM

marict

  • Member
  • Posts: 304
Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Excellent

« previous next »
 

Did you know?

ACTH levels are normally highest in the early morning (between 6 and 8 A.M.) and lowest in the evening (between 6 and 11 P.M.). Therefore, a doctor who suspects abnormal levels looks for low ACTH in the morning and high ACTH in the evening.

Did you know?

When blood is deoxygenated and flowing back to the heart through the veins, it is dark reddish-blue in color. Blood in the arteries that is oxygenated and flowing out to the body is bright red. Whereas arterial blood comes out in spurts, venous blood flows.

Did you know?

In the United States, congenital cytomegalovirus causes one child to become disabled almost every hour. CMV is the leading preventable viral cause of development disability in newborns. These disabilities include hearing or vision loss, and cerebral palsy.

Did you know?

Pope Sylvester II tried to introduce Arabic numbers into Europe between the years 999 and 1003, but their use did not catch on for a few more centuries, and Roman numerals continued to be the primary number system.

Did you know?

Less than one of every three adults with high LDL cholesterol has the condition under control. Only 48.1% with the condition are being treated for it.

Testing Visual Fields by Confrontation: The nurse and patient should be approximately at an eye to e Testing Visual Fields by Confrontation: The nurse and patient should be approximately at an eye to e
Table Salt Table Salt
Wild chimpanzees make and use simple tools to obtain food, learning tool making from one another. Wild chimpanzees make and use simple tools to obtain food, learning tool making from one another.
Activity, Food Restriction, and Weight Loss Activity, Food Restriction, and Weight Loss
Adult deer tick (Ixodes scapularis). Adult deer tick (Ixodes scapularis).
A very small sampling of organisms in an arctic food web on land. A very small sampling of organisms in an arctic food web on land.
Video: Medullary osmotic gradient - influencing factors

For a complete list of videos, visit our video library