Exam 17: Communicating With Patients Experiencing Communication Deficits

When caring for a nonverbal patient, the nurse should implement what intervention to maintain communication?

The nurse is caring for an older adult patient who has recently withdrawn from relationships, appears depressed, and appears reluctant to seek information from the nurse due to a hearing loss. What assessment should the nurse focus on to help minimize additional dysfunction?

When caring for the patient with macular degeneration, the nurse facilitates communication by implementing which action?

The nurse while providing bedside care for an unconscious patient, is overheard stating, "I wouldn't want to live in this condition." What did this nurse not realize about the patient's capabilities?

The nurse is caring for a patient who has experienced a stroke resulting in aphasia. What type of deficit should the nurse assess for?

The nurse is caring for an older adult patient who is recovering from a stroke. When the nurse speaks to the patient, the patient nods and responds using incoherent words. Which type of aphasia does this patient exhibit?

When communicating with a patient diagnosed with a serious mental disorder, it is important for the nurse to recognize which fact about these patients?

When attempting to communicate a procedure to a hearing-impaired patient, what strategy would not facilitate client understanding?

Which statement is true concerning communication deficits?

The nurse is caring for a patient who has experienced global aphasia secondary to a stroke. Which intervention is most appropriate for this patient?

The nurse understands that as patients age, they are more likely to have vision problems that may interfere with the communication process, including the lens of the eyes becoming less flexible, making it difficult to accommodate shifts from far to near vision. The nurse recognizes that this condition is known by what term?

When caring for a hearing-impaired patient, the nurse should implement what intervention to facilitate communication?

A patient will which diagnosis will most benefit from the use of touch during a therapeutic encounter?

The nurse is caring for a patient who is hearing-impaired and legally blind in the right eye and has just returned from cataract surgery on the left eye. The nurse recognizes that what statement is relevant to the patient's safety when being ambulated?