You Are Responding to a Nursing Home for an 85-Year-Old

Multiple Choice

You are responding to a nursing home for an 85-year-old patient complaining of difficulty breathing.How would you initiate contact with this patient?

A) Stand near the head of the bed and shout to make sure the patient can hear you.
B) Place yourself at eye-level, identify yourself, and ask the patient what she would like to be called.
C) Sit on the foot of the bed and ask the patient what's up.
D) Pick up the patient's wrist and begin taking her pulse.