Which strategies can the nurse teach the family of a client with ...

[Destiiny22]

Which strategies can the nurse teach the family of a client with Alzheimer disease to ensure an adequate nutritional and fluid intake?
 
  Standard Text: Select all that apply.
  1. Weigh the client once a week.
  2. Assist the client with eating.
  3. Offer fluids on a regular basis.
  4. Permit the client to feed self.
  5. Provide finger foods.

Question 2

The nurse is teaching a class for clients who recently have been diagnosed with epilepsy. The nurse determines that learning has occurred when the clients make which statements?
 
  Standard Text: Select all that apply.
  1. Epilepsy can be caused by a head injury.
  2. With some cases of epilepsy, the cause is never determined.
  3. Excessive stress levels cause disruptions in how the brain receives oxygen, leading to epilepsy.
  4. Eating disorders like anorexia nervosa increase the risk for developing epilepsy.
  5. A stroke, or brain attack, could increase the risk for developing epilepsy.

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Answer to Question 1

Correct Answer: 1,2,3
Rationale 1: Weekly weights are one strategy to ensure an adequate nutritional intake.
Rationale 2: Helping the client with meals and eating is a strategy to ensure an adequate nutritional intake.
Rationale 3: Offering fluids is one way to ensure an adequate fluid intake.
Rationale 4: The client may or may not be able to feed self, depending on the extent of the disease process.
Rationale 5: Providing finger foods may or may not ensure an adequate nutritional intake for the client.
Global Rationale: Weekly weights, helping the client with meals and eating, and offering fluids are all strategies to ensure an adequate nutritional intake. The client may or may not be able to feed self, depending on the extent of the disease process. Providing finger foods may or may not ensure an adequate nutritional intake for the client.

Answer to Question 2

Correct Answer: 1,2,5
Rationale 1: Head trauma is a known cause of seizures.
Rationale 2: Epilepsy is a disorder where seizures occur on a chronic basis. In some cases, the exact etiology cannot be identified.
Rationale 3: Excessive levels of stress cannot disrupt cerebral oxygen to the extent that epilepsy would occur.
Rationale 4: There is no known correlation with anorexia nervosa and the development of epilepsy.
Rationale 5: Changes in cerebral perfusion such as hypotension, strokes or brain attacks, and shock can be causes of seizures.
Global Rationale: Epilepsy is a disorder where seizures occur on a chronic basis. In some cases, the exact etiology cannot be identified. Head trauma, changes in cerebral perfusion such as hypotension, strokes or brain attacks, and shock are all known cause of seizures. Excessive levels of stress cannot disrupt cerebral oxygen to the extent that epilepsy would occur. There is no known correlation with anorexia nervosa and the development of epilepsy.

[Destiiny22]

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[frre432]

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