Nurs 3403 Holistic Care of Older Adults:
Exam 2 Questions With Complete Solutions Which person is most likely to experience health disparities?
- 65-year-old affluent Hispanic man living in a city
- 70-year-old married white man living in a rural area
- 75-year-old widowed African American woman living alone
- 80-year-old Asian woman living with her daughter and
family - Correct Answers ✅c) 75-year-old widowed African American woman living alone What should the nurse do when providing nursing care to an older adult with a different cultural background?
a) Have the family provide care so no customs are violated
b) Assess how cultural variables affect the patient's health
c) Focus only on the patient's needs and ignore the nurse's
beliefs
d) Overlook the differences and provide the patient
generalized care - Correct Answers ✅b) Assess how cultural variables affect the patient's health As a nurse taking care of an older adult who is facing surgery in the near future, you notice that she is withdrawn and talks about missing her church family and pastor who are in another town. Which of the following nursing actions might you take? (Select all that apply) 1 / 3
Nurs 3403 Holistic Care of Older Adults:
Exam 2 Questions With Complete Solutions
a) Ask her permission to call her pastor to request a visit and
to notify her church friends.
b) Ask if you could call the hospital's clergy representative to
come and visit her.
c) Tell her that the physician is the best in his field, and that
she has nothing to worry about.
d) Spend some time with her, holding her hand if she wants,
and let her talk about her church family
e) Call her family and let them know that she is an anguish
and would better survive surgery if she would be able to see her pastor and some church family members.
f) Take her hand and ask her to pray with you. - Correct
Answers ✅a) Ask her permission to call her pastor to request a visit and to notify her church friends
b) Ask if you could call the hospital's clergy representative to
come and visit her
d) Spend some time with her, holding her hand if she wants,
and let her talk about her church family Following the chronic illness trajectory, as a nurse, you would
(select all that apply):
- assist with advanced care planning.
- assist the client to gain greater control.
- assist the client in making longitudinal lifestyle changes. 2 / 3
Nurs 3403 Holistic Care of Older Adults:
Exam 2 Questions With Complete Solutions
- assist the client who is in a downward trajectory. - Correct
- assist the client to gain greater control.
- assist the client who is in a downward trajectory.
Answers ✅a) assist with advanced care planning.
Which of the following social determinates does not play a part in influencing levels of chronic illness?
a) Education
b) Delirium
c) Language barriers
d) Socially disadvantaged - Correct Answers ✅b) Delirium
Current medical and public health care models of care are not meeting the needs of the older adult with chronic illnesses.Several new models and programs help in improving the care for individuals with chronic illnesses and include which of the following? (select all that apply)
a) Shifting Perspectives Model of Chronic Illness
b) Geriatric Resources for Assessment and Care of Elders
Model
c) Guided Care Results
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