Author Question: A nurse is leading a word-quiz game with a group of nursing home residents because the nurse knows ... (Read 106 times)

tth · **on:** Jul 11, 2018

A nurse is leading a word-quiz game with a group of nursing home residents because the nurse knows this activity will assist the residents in maintaining:

A) Fluid intelligence
B) Adaptive thinking
C) Crystallized intelligence
D) Psychomotor memory

Question 2

A home health nurse visits a client who has a history of alcoholism and dementia. The client's words are incoherent, and the client's clothes are filthy. The client is unsteady and leaning to the right, and the room in the rooming house is in disarray.

The only word that the nurse can clearly identify is no. Which action by the nurse is most appropriate at this time?

A) Ask the neighbors what has been happening.
B) Call emergency services for transport to a hospital.
C) Leave and return later.
D) Search the room for empty bottles.

alexisweber49 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 11, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Ans: C
Crystallized intelligence refers to vocabulary skills, information, and verbal comprehension. Fluid intelligence involves a person's inherent abilities, such as memory and recognition, and involves adaptive thinking. Memory involves retrieval and storage of information.

Answer to Question 2

Ans: B
Victims of self-neglect are likely to have the following characteristics: older age; chronic illness; functional limitations; solo living arrangements; social isolation; inadequate economic resources; and dementia, mental illness, substance abuse, or hoarding behaviors. If the elder is incapable of deciding whether to accept or reject emergency services, then these services should be provided.