A confused older adult patient in a skilled care facility is sleeping. A health care worker enters the room quietly and touches the bed to see if it is wet. The patient awakens and hits the health care worker in the face. Which statement best explains the patient’s action?

A hospitalized patient experiencing delirium misinterprets reality and a patient diagnosed with dementia wanders about the home. Which outcome is the priority in both scenarios?

A new patient immediately requires seclusion on admission. The assessment is incomplete, and the health care provider has not examined the patient. Immediately after safely secluding the patient, which action has priority?

Which is an important nursing intervention when giving care to a patient withdrawing from a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant?

Which environmental adjustment should the nurse make for a patient experiencing delirium with perceptual alterations?

Confirmation of a history of what scenario from a patient’s record indicates compromised coping skills and the need for careful assessment of the risk for violence?

If the current pressure of the tank is 4; select all that would be true.

A nurse counsels a person whose spouse recently died. The nurse uses cheer and humor to lift the person’s spirits. At one point, the widowed person smiles briefly. What analysis of this scenario is correct?

In the cascade control loop pictured below: In cascade mode, the board operator controls/adjusts the SP of FIC.

Which is an important nursing intervention when giving care to a patient withdrawing from a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant?