Which of the following strategies for a medication teaching plan for older adults facilitates ...

Which of the following strategies for a medication teaching plan for older adults facilitates compliance with the medication regimen?
 
  a. Provide opportunities for older adults to ask questions
  b. Give older adults printed medication orders
  c. Teach the family about the dosing, desired effects, and side effects of all medications
  d. Test the ability of older adults to read the medication labels

Question 2

Mrs. Marks has just been discharged from the hospital after having a cerebrovascular accident. You are interviewing her on admission to your assisted living facility.
 
  Questions of significant concern in the initial assessment would include all of the following except
  a. Ability to hold objects
  b. Frequency of colds
  c. Difficulty with vision or hearing
  d. Assistive devices needed

Question 3

Laura Adamson, 82 years old, was admitted to the hospital emergency department for an apparent overdose of medications.
 
  After interviewing her, you find that she does not have a good system in her home for reminding her that she has already taken her medications. Which of the following would be the most desirable method to remind Mrs. Adamson that she has taken her medication?
  a. Suggest a medication box
  b. Instruct her to turn the medication bottle upside down after she has taken her medications
  c. Suggest color coding the medication bottles
  d. Suggest that she mark a checklist or calendar

Question 4

When conducting a nursing assessment of the gastrointestinal tract, all of the following questions may be helpful except
 
  a. Food intolerances
  b. Use of laxatives
  c. Sexual activity
  d. Abdominal distress before or after meals

Question 5

Helga Rudstrom, 88 years old, has a nursing diagnosis of Noncompliance with medication regimen related to inability to open childproof bottles. Which of the following interventions is appropriate for Mrs. Rudstrom?
 
  a. Instruct her daughter to dump each bottle of pills into a cup
  b. Instruct her daughter to leave the covers off of the bottles
  c. Instruct her daughter to put the daily doses of the medication in little plastic cups that her mother can take every morning
  d. Instruct her daughter to request special lids from the pharmacy

Question 6

Which nursing focus is appropriate when dealing with chronic conditions?
 
  a. Basing care on the ability to cure
  b. Assisting the patient to attain the highest possible level physically, socially, psychologically, and spiritually
  c. Using more sophisticated, high-technology interventions to assist the patient
  d. Allowing patients to deny a disability because it will pass

Question 7

What assessment information is essential to have before administering a new medication to an older adult?
 
  a. Known drug allergies
  b. Time of last meal
  c. Name of the patient's pharmacy
  d. History of past drug use