When assessing the skin of an older adult patient who is complaining of pruritus, what should the nurse advise the patient to avoid to reduce further drying of her skin?
a. Perfumed soap
b. Hard-milled soap
c. Antibacterial soap
d. Lotion soap
Question 2What should the therapeutic management of iron deficiency anemia include?
a. Multivitamins
b. Calcium
c. Ferrous sulfate
d. Iodine
Question 3When was the Social Security Act, which was the first major legislation providing financial security for older adults, passed?
a. 1930
b. 1935
c. 1940
d. 1945
Question 4Parents of a 6-month-old child, who has just been diagnosed with iron deficiency anemia, ask why it was not diagnosed earlier. What would be the best response by the nurse?
a. Are you sure your child has iron deficiency anemia?
b. This happens when the maternal stores of iron are depleted at about 6 months.
c. This anemia is caused by blood loss.
d. The child may not have had it for a long time.
Question 5When the nurse discusses prevention of cardiac disease, falls, and depression with a group of older adults, the benefits of what are important to stress?
a. Nutrition
b. Medications
c. Exercise
d. Sleep
Question 6What is the most common clinical manifestation of coarctation of the aorta?
a. Clubbing of the digits
b. Upper extremity hypertension
c. Pedal edema and portal congestion
d. Loud systolic ejection murmur
Question 7When discussing aging, to whom does the term older adulthood apply?
a. Age 55 and above
b. Age 65 and above
c. Age 70 and above
d. Age 75 and above
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