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CQXA

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What should the nurse keep in mind when determining the relationship between pain and sleep in an older patient?
 
  A) Nonpharmacologic measures to control pain and enhance sleep are preferable to analgesics.
  B) Analgesic drugs should be administered to older adults to prevent potential episodes of pain.
  C) Older adults are more sensitive to pain than younger adults, and more at risk of having pain interfere with sleep.
  D) The availability of alternative forms of pain control such as massage and diversion means that pharmacologic pain medications are inappropriate and unnecessary.

Question 2

Which of the following are interventions that gerontological nurses can implement to prevent and diagnose cancer in older adults? (Select all that apply.)
 
  A) Encouraging healthy lifestyles
  B) Educating patients about cancer screening
  C) Facilitating patient efforts to obtain appropriate screening tests
  D) Providing creative, holistic, and skillful nursing interventions to patients diagnosed with cancer
  E) Supporting the physical, emotional, and spiritual health of individuals


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tdewitt

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Reply #1 on: Jul 11, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Nonpharmacologic measures to control pain should be attempted whenever possible. If nonpharmacologic means of pain relief are ineffective, it is appropriate to provide the weakest type of analgesic and increase as necessary to control pain. It is not known if older adults are more sensitive to pain and it would inappropriate to administer analgesic medications prophylactically to all older adults.

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A, B, C
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Encouraging healthy lifestyle habits in persons of all ages can help reduce the risk factors for developing cancer. Educating patients about cancer screening and facilitating their efforts to obtain tests can enable cancers to be detected in early stages, thereby increasing survival rates. Creative, holistic, and skillful nursing interventions that offer supportphysical, emotional, and spiritualto individuals diagnosed with cancer and their significant others promote the best quality of life in the presence of the disease but are not related to prevention and diagnosis of cancer in older adults.


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Reply #2 on: Jul 11, 2018
Correct answers!


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Reply #3 on: Jul 11, 2018
Great! Please up vote :D


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