The home health nurse is caring for a client diagnosed with…
The home health nurse is caring for a client diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. The client’s family wants to keep them at home as long as possible and are opposed to nursing home placement, but report that the client has begun wandering more. One night they found the client out in the front yard at 2 a.m. The nurse develops the nursing diagnosis of “Wandering related to effects of memory loss as evidenced by the client wandering out of house at night.” What is the most appropriate nursing intervention in this situation?