NR222 Week 7 Development and Health Promotion Across Adolescence
and Adulthood UPDATED!!!
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,9. A daughter is beginning to assume caregiver responsibility for her 90-year-old widowed
father. Her father has hypertension, coronary artery disease, and type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Home health services are set for once a week. During the first visit, the daughter expresses
concern about all the medications that her father has been prescribed by different doctors
and that he has obtained from different pharmacies. The daughter states that her father
cannot really tell her what each medication is for or when he should take them. From this
initial information the nurse suspects polypharmacy. What medication assessment data are
needed? (Select all that apply.)
1. Review all medication prescriptions
2. Match medication prescriptions with the patient's medication bottles or unit-doseblister
packs
3. Identify involvement of the caregiver in helping with medication administration
4. Identify and delete duplicate medications
5. Obtain a listing of any over-the-counter medications
7. A 48-year-old patient visiting the primary health clinic presents with fatigue and recent
weight loss. It is the patient's first visit to the clinic in 2 years. The patient has a family history
of cancer and heart disease. During assessment, the nurse finds that the patient has two jobs
and works about 12 to 14 hours every weekday. The patient drinks three or four alcoholic
drinks a day, relies on fast foods or prepared foods at work, sleeps only 4 to 6 hours a day,
and exercises infrequently. The patient takes a nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug (NSAID)
daily for knee pain. Which of the following places this patient at risk for development of a
chronic illness later in life?
(Select all that apply.)
1. Working 10 to 12 hours a day
2. Eating high-calorie and fatty foods
3. Exercising infrequently
4. Taking a daily analgesic
5. Excessive alcohol consumption
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and Adulthood UPDATED!!!
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,9. A daughter is beginning to assume caregiver responsibility for her 90-year-old widowed
father. Her father has hypertension, coronary artery disease, and type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Home health services are set for once a week. During the first visit, the daughter expresses
concern about all the medications that her father has been prescribed by different doctors
and that he has obtained from different pharmacies. The daughter states that her father
cannot really tell her what each medication is for or when he should take them. From this
initial information the nurse suspects polypharmacy. What medication assessment data are
needed? (Select all that apply.)
1. Review all medication prescriptions
2. Match medication prescriptions with the patient's medication bottles or unit-doseblister
packs
3. Identify involvement of the caregiver in helping with medication administration
4. Identify and delete duplicate medications
5. Obtain a listing of any over-the-counter medications
7. A 48-year-old patient visiting the primary health clinic presents with fatigue and recent
weight loss. It is the patient's first visit to the clinic in 2 years. The patient has a family history
of cancer and heart disease. During assessment, the nurse finds that the patient has two jobs
and works about 12 to 14 hours every weekday. The patient drinks three or four alcoholic
drinks a day, relies on fast foods or prepared foods at work, sleeps only 4 to 6 hours a day,
and exercises infrequently. The patient takes a nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug (NSAID)
daily for knee pain. Which of the following places this patient at risk for development of a
chronic illness later in life?
(Select all that apply.)
1. Working 10 to 12 hours a day
2. Eating high-calorie and fatty foods
3. Exercising infrequently
4. Taking a daily analgesic
5. Excessive alcohol consumption
Don't know?
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