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erika

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on: Jul 19, 2018
A 70-year-old man is admitted to the hospital in a severe state of malnutrition. The nurse learns that he lost his wife 3 months ago and is living alone in a rural area. His family lives at a great distance and rarely visits him.
 
  He is not eating for several days at a time and is not paying his bills. He is now without electricity and phone service at his home. When his son asks the nurse what is wrong with his father, what would be the nurse's best response?
  A) He is grieving for his wife.
  B) He has colon cancer and is dying.
  C) He has a malabsorption disorder.
  D) He feels alone and useless.

Question 2

Several steps occur in the crisis sequence. What is one of these steps?
 
  A) Organization recurs
  B) Violence
  C) Autonomic response
  D) Peripheral nervous system response


Ksh22

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Reply #1 on: Jul 19, 2018
Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

C


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