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jeatrice · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

A nurse is caring for an elderly client at a health care facility. What should the nurse do to provide an appropriate environment for the client?

A) Ensure that there are bright lights on during the night.
B) Ensure that the bed has raised side rails.
C) Ensure that the environment is warmer than normal.
D) Ensure that the client's belongings are in order.

Question 2

A nurse is caring for a client with insomnia and the nurse is explaining the importance of sleep to the client. Which of the following roles is sleep supposed to play?

A) Stabilizing mood
B) Eliminating fat accumulation
C) Reducing protein synthesis
D) Decreasing pain tolerance

Sweetkitty24130 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 22, 2018

Answer to Question 1

C
Feedback:
The nurse should ensure that the environment is warmer than normal. Older adults tend to prefer warmer room temperatures because of decreased subcutaneous fat deposits. Ensuring that bright lights are on during the night may interfere with good sleep. Raising side rails for safety may not be recommended. Ensuring that the client's belongings are in order is important, but is a secondary activity.

Answer to Question 2

A
Feedback:
Sleep is believed to play an important role in reducing fatigue, stabilizing mood, and improving blood flow to the brain, among other things. Sleep increases, not reduces, protein synthesis. Sleep does not eliminate accumulation of fat in a person's body. Regular exercise or physical activity reduces fat accumulation. Sleep increases pain tolerance in a person, whereas sleep deprivation decreases pain tolerance.