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Napnes Long Term Care - Module 12 Quiz

This quiz contains questions from Module 12. Be sure you have read all of the assigned chapters associated with this module and complete all other assignments before taking this quiz.

This quiz has 9 multiple choice questions. Read each question carefully, then select the answer you feel correctly answers the question. Once you have completed all of the questions, submit the quiz by selecting the "submit quiz" at the bottom right of your screen.

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1 / 9

Which of the following statements is true about human sexuality?

Children are essentially asexual

There are sexual needs throughout life

Homosexuality is a treatable illness

Minor sexual dysfunctions are difficult to treat

2 / 9

When planning care for an older adult the nurse is aware that normal aging has little effect on the resident’s?

Sense of taste or smell

Gastrointestinal motility

Muscle or motor strength

Ability to handle life’s stresses

3 / 9

They key factor in accurately assessing how a resident will cope with body image changes is the?

Suddenness of the change

Obviousness of the change

Extent of body change present

Resident’s perception of the change

4 / 9

The nurse’s role in maintaining or promoting the health of the older adult should be based on the principle that?

There is a strong correlation between successful retirement and good health

Some of the physiologic changes that occur as a result of aging are reversible

Thoughts of impending death are frequent and depressing to most older adults

Older adults can better accept the dependent state chronic illness often causes

5 / 9

The nurse recognizes that a characteristic behavior often demonstrated in the initial stage of a resident’s coping with dying often includes?

Criticizing medical care

Sleeping for long periods

Asking for additional medical consultations

Ringing the call light as soon as the nurse leaves

6 / 9

The nurse encourages a terminally ill resident to make decisions about daily activities and care. The nurse would know that the resident who had been extremely angry with everything and everybody, had resolved some of the anger when the resident states?

“You’ve got a busy morning ahead of you! I’m really a mess.”

“What are you going to let me know this morning? You know I can help.”

“It’s so hard to let someone do so much for me. It just doesn’t seem right.”

“I can do my face, hands, arms and chest today but I think you’d better do the rest.”

7 / 9

The grieving wife of a resident who has just died says to the nurse, “We should have spent more time together. I always felt the children’s needs came first.” The nurse recognizes that the wife is experiencing?

Displaced anger

Normal feelings of guilt

Shame for past behavior

Ambivalent feelings about him

8 / 9

A resident who is to have a segmental mastectomy for cancer of the breast tells the nurse that she is worried what she will look like after surgery. The nurse’s most appropriate initial response is?

“Try not to think about the surgery now”

“Why don’t you discuss this with your husband?”

“I can understand that you’d be concerned”

“Everyone having the surgery feels the same way”

9 / 9

A female resident who has been told by her physician that she has untreatable metastatic carcinoma tells the nurse that she believes the physician has made an error and that she does not have cancer and is not going to die. The nurse evaluates that the resident is experiencing the stage of death and dying known as?

Anger

Denial

Bargaining

Acceptance

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