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What type of pain meds are ibuprofen and
tylenol? - ANSWERS - Analgesics
-anti-inflammatories How close is intimate space?
- muscle relaxers
A) 18-48 inches
B) 0-18 inches
C) 48 inches to 12 feet
What are the 3 types of prevention? - D) greater than 12 feet - ANSWERS - B) 0-
ANSWERS - Primary: prevents illness 18 inches
before it begins
Secondary: catches illness and treats it before it
worsens; screenings How close is personal space?
Tertiary: Rehabilitation; After disease or injury is A) 18-48 inches
established B) 0-18 inches
C) 48 inches to 12 feet
D) greater than 12 feet - ANSWERS - A)
18-48 inches
Elderly patients should have a well balanced diet
with an intake around ________ calories.
A) 1500 How close is social space?
B) 2000
C) 1200 A) 18-48 inches
D) 1300 - ANSWERS - C) 1200 B) 0-18 inches
C) 48 inches to 12 feet
D) greater than 12 feet - ANSWERS - C) 48
inches to 12 feet
How much exercise should an elderly person
get? - ANSWERS - 30 minutes a day
Ex - walking, gardening, swimming the partial or total loss of the ability to
communicate
Affects the ability to understand/ express through
How many times a day should the elderly brush words, gestures, and writing
their teeth?
use visual aids
A) 4
B) 3 Most common in older adults - ANSWERS -
C) 2 aphasia
D) 1 - ANSWERS - C) 2
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How close is public space? What do the letters in ISBAR-R stand for? -
ANSWERS - Introduction
A) 18-48 inches Situation
B) 0-18 inches Background
C) 48 inches to 12 feet Assessment
D) greater than 12 feet - ANSWERS - D) Recommendation
greater than 12 feet Read book
Speaking to elderly like children Which type of diabetes is more diet dependent?
- uses terms like honey, dearie, and sweetie
A) Type 1
patronizing/ demeaning way to speak to older B) Type 2 - ANSWERS - B) Type 2
adults
slow speech with simple vocabulary. -
ANSWERS - elder speak information that is seen, heard, felt, or smelled by
an observer
Collected by exams, assessments, labs, and
a slowly progressive decline in mental abilities, diagnostic tests
including memory, thinking, and judgment, that is
often accompanied by personality changes Ex: Rashes, Vital signs, S/s of infections -
- causes both cognitive and language defects ANSWERS - objective data (signs)
- slow onset; uncurbable
- use gestures and Y/N questions
Caused by damage to cerebral cortex things a person tells you about that you cannot
observe through your senses
Characteristics include: limited attention span,
inability to focus on more than one thing at a Ex - Nausea, pain - ANSWERS - Subjective
time, confusion of reality and fantasy, inability to data (symptoms)
follow complete directions - ANSWERS -
Dementia
Which order is correct when you first assess a
patient?
Which type of diabetes is insulin dependent?
A) Palpation, inspection, ausclation
A) Type 1 B) Inspection, ausclation, palpation
B) Type 2 - ANSWERS - A) Type 1 C) Ausclation, inspection, palpation
D) Inspection, palpitation, ausclation -
ANSWERS - D) Inspection, palpitation,
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ausclation Skin breakdown
What is the normal pulse range? - Drugs must be water soluble in order to dissolve
ANSWERS - 60-100 bpm in the watery contents of the GI tract.
Tend to remain in higher concentrations in
bloodstream because it is less than the total
What is the average temperature? - amount of water in the body - ANSWERS -
ANSWERS - 98.6 water soluble drugs
- plus / minus 1 degree
36.5 - 37.2 degrees C
These store in the fatty areas of the body and
can have longer lasting traces in the body that
water-soluble drugs do not.
What are the average respirations? -
ANSWERS - 12-20 breaths/min Become trapped in fatty tissue because
decreased muscle mass and increased adipose
tissue - ANSWERS - fat soluble drugs
A temporary fall in blood pressure when a person
rapidly changes from a sitting position to a
standing position - ANSWERS - Orthostatic List some most common safety problems that
(postural) hypotension occur with older adults: - ANSWERS - Falls
(most common)
Choking
is another screening tool that can be
administered in 5 minutes or less and requires Burns
minimal training.
Automobile accidents
3 item recall, clock drawing test (CDT) -
ANSWERS - Mini-Cog Extreme temperatures
impaired physical mobility
What do the letters in SPICES stand for? - Hazardous environments
ANSWERS - Sleep disorders
Problems with eating/ feeding
Incontinence
A neural structure lying below the thalamus
Confusion
Evidence of falls
Directs several maintenance activities (eating,