NUR 163 Exam 1 Review (Verified Answers)

163 Exam 1 Review 1. Thermoregulation decreases in the elderly  This is important to know because you need to know individual baseline temperatures so that you know what is normal and not normal 2. Adherence/compliance (same thing)  If someone is adherent with their POC, they will have decreased symptoms  If someone has poor adherence to their POC, it can lead to complications and limited function ability  The disease that people have the most trouble adhering to is diabetes  What is the best way to make sure that someone is compliant? You have them participate in their POC  If someone is refusing their POC you ask them what they are feeling, the patient might feel accused of something or blamed 3. Pain is a communication barrier 4. If the patient isn’t giving accurate information of their health, we are not going to provide the right care or give any accurate information while educating 5. The best form of therapeutic communication between the nurse and the patient is active listening 6. If someone has had a stroke and is experiencing aphasia and cannot speak, the best way to communicate is the through a poster board with the alphabet and pictures on it that would help them communicate 7. A patient is newly admitted, and they are nervous because they have had previous bad experiences in hospitals before, how would you communicate with them? Open-ended questions 8. What is a Katz test?  ADL’s 9. A patient lives in a facility, their husband lives at home. The nurse gets a call that the husband fell and is in the hospital with a broken hip