The nurse should encourage which of the following exercise(s) to assist with balance for a client who is at high risk for falls? (Select all that apply.

A nurse is assessing an older adult's nutritional status. The nurse understands that which of the following is the most important indicator for a potential nutritional deficit?

In assessing an older adult, you question his cognitive skills when you notice that

Which of the following is a true statement about nutrition for older adults?

A nurse admitting and orienting an older adult to the hospital unit discusses fall prevention and demonstrates the use of the call bell to the patient. The patient's daughter asks: "Why don't you just put up all the side rails to prevent my mother from getting out of bed by herself and falling. That should work, right?" What is the nurse's best response?

After assessing the older client in his bed, the nurse determines that he is at high risk for falls. The nurse leaves the room to get a fall risk sign and returns to find him on the floor pleading for help. Which of the following was the most important intervention the nurse should have implemented to prevent this event?

Which of the following assessments should be included in a post fall prevention assessment of an older adult? (Select all that apply.)

In reviewing an older adult's insurance history, you find that he is on Medicaid. What do you know that Medicaid is used for?

Across the country, temperatures are in the high nineties to low hundreds Fahrenheit and your client has no air conditioning. You know that due to the elevated temperatures, hyperthermia can result. Which of the following tips to prevent hyperthermia should you tell your elderly client? (Select all that apply.)

An older adult client who is cognitively intact and has decision-making capacity makes a decision to stop chemotherapy for breast cancer after being told of further spread of the cancer. The client's daughter is upset at her parent's decision an approaches the nurse and states: "I don't agree with the decision to stop treatments, I am my parent's health care proxy, I want to override that decision." What is the best response by the nurse?

An older client's daughter asks a nurse the following: "I have heard about Pace programs and think that it might be a good option for my parent Can you tell me more about what the qualifications to be part of a Pace program are?" The nurse includes which of the following in her response to the family member? (Select all that apply.)