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jazziefee

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on: Jul 8, 2018
A community health nurse is preparing a teaching program that addresses chronic diseases common among older adults. Which of the following would be most appropriate to include?
 
  A) Forty percent of older adults are diagnosed with diabetes.
  B) Weight-bearing exercises are related to increased cases of osteoporosis.
  C) Postural hypotension can be related to falls in elders.
  D) Older white men have the highest rates of hypertension.

Question 2

While working with another group of community health nurses, a nurse overhears one of the nurses saying, That older man should just retire.
 
  He's 70 years old. How productive can he be? The nurse interprets this statement as reflecting which of the following?
 
  A) Prejudice
  B) Bias
  C) Ageism
  D) Insight


cpetit11

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Reply #1 on: Jul 8, 2018
Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

C


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