QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Health literacy - ✔✔Ability to understand health information
✔✔Delirium - ✔✔Acute, reversible confusion
✔✔Dementia - ✔✔Chronic, irreversible decline
✔✔Depression in older adults - ✔✔Common but treatable condition
✔✔Sundowning - ✔✔Increased confusion in evening
✔✔Priority risk for older adults - ✔✔Falls
✔✔Elder abuse - ✔✔Physical, emotional, financial, neglect
✔✔Nurse responsibility for abuse - ✔✔Report immediately
✔✔Reminiscence - ✔✔Talking about past experiences
✔✔Middle adulthood issue - ✔✔Caregiver role strain
, ✔✔Sensory deprivation - ✔✔Lack of stimulation causing confusion or depression
✔✔Sensory overload - ✔✔Too much stimulation causing anxiety or agitation
✔✔Risk for sensory deprivation - ✔✔Isolation, immobility, ICU
✔✔Risk for sensory overload - ✔✔Noise, frequent interruptions
✔✔Sensory deprivation intervention - ✔✔Increase stimulation and interaction
✔✔Sensory overload intervention - ✔✔Reduce noise and stimuli
✔✔Vision changes aging - ✔✔Presbyopia (difficulty seeing close objects)
✔✔Hearing changes aging - ✔✔Presbycusis (high-frequency hearing loss)
✔✔Best communication for hearing loss - ✔✔Speak clearly, lower tone
✔✔Infection cycle - ✔✔Infectious agent, reservoir, portal of exit, transmission, portal of
entry, host
✔✔Infectious agent - ✔✔Organism causing disease
✔✔Reservoir - ✔✔Place organism lives
✔✔Portal of exit - ✔✔Path organism leaves body
✔✔Mode of transmission - ✔✔How organism spreads
✔✔Portal of entry - ✔✔How organism enters new host
✔✔Susceptible host - ✔✔Person at risk for infection
✔✔Incubation phase - ✔✔No symptoms yet
✔✔Prodromal phase - ✔✔Vague symptoms, highly contagious
✔✔Illness phase - ✔✔Specific symptoms present
✔✔Convalescence - ✔✔Recovery phase
✔✔Primary infection - ✔✔Initial infection