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1. While caring for an older client, the nurse observes multiple bruises over the client’s legs, arms, back, and gluteal areas. When the client contact, the nurse suspects elder abuse. What action ... should the nurse indicate? ➢ Measure and documentsize,shape and color of the bruised areas. 2. A client who is homeless is diagnosed with schizophrenia and admitted on an involuntary basis to e mental health hospital 4 days ago. The client stopped taking prescribed antipsychotic drugs approximately one month ago. Since hospitalization the client continuesto have poorjudgment and refuses all medications. What action should the nurse take? ➢ Administer a long acting antipsychotic medication so thatthe client can be discharged to a shelter. ? 3. After receiving treatmentfor anorexia, a student asks the school nurse for permission to work in the school cafeteria as part of the school’s wok study program. What action should the nurse take? ➢ Recommend assignment to the receptionist’s office. 4. A male client comes to the emergency center because he has an erection that will not resolve. The client reports that he is taking trazodone (desyrel) for insomnia. Which information is most important for the nurse to ask this client? ➢ Have you taken any medication for erectile dysfunction? 5. On admission to the mental health unit, a client diagnosed with schizophrenia tells the nurse that he is the son of God. Based on this statement, which intervention should the nurse include in this Client’s plan of care? ➢ Confront his delusion as not consistent with reality. [Show More]

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