The nurse is assigned to care for an adult client who had a stroke and is aphasic. Which
interventions should the nurse use for communicating with the client? Select all that apply
1. Face the client when talking.
2. Speak slowly and maintain eye contact.
3. Use gestures when talking to enhanc...
3. Just out of the client's reach, on the left side
4. Just out of the client's reach, on the right side
1. Within the client's reach, on the left side
Hemiparesis is a weakness of the face, arm, and leg on one side. The client with one-sided
hemiparesis benefits from having objects placed on the unaffected side and within reach.
Other helpful activities with hemiparesis include range-of-motion exercises to the affected side
and muscle-strengthening exercises to the unaffected side.
The nurse is reinforcing instructions to the family of a stroke client who has homonymous
hemianopsia about measures to help the client overcome the deficit. The nurse determines that
the family understands the measures to use if they state that they will do which?
1. Place objects in the client's impaired field of vision.
2. Approach the client from the impaired field of vision.
3. Discourage the client from wearing his or her own eyeglasses. 4.Remind the client to turn the
head to scan the lost visual field.
4. Remind the client to turn the head to scan the lost visual field.
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