NU240 GERO Final Exam Practice Questions and Answers
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2024/2025
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2024/2025
NU240 GERO Final Exam Practice
Questions and Answers
Which of the following is a true statement about elimination in older adults? - Answer-
Defecation less than once each day is not necessarily constipation.
Which action should be included in all bladder-retraining programs? - Answer-Toileting...
The nurse assesses a male resident in a nursing home for urinary incontinence and determines
that he is unaware of the problem. Which recommendation should the nurse implement? -
Answer✔✔-Provide regular toileting.
A large residual urine volume characterizes what type of incontinence? - Answer✔✔-Overflow
An older adult is in the hospital because of heart failure and has become incontinent of urine.
Which evidence-based resource should the nurse use to guide continence care for this patient?
- Answer✔✔-Nursing Standard Practice Protocol
The nurse wants to begin helping a resident who is overweight and has urinary incontinence
with healthy bladder behavior skills. Which intervention should the nurse implement? -
Answer✔✔-Schedule voiding at 2- to 4-hour intervals.
An older woman tells the nurse practitioner that she fears her family will place her in a nursing
home because she developed stress incontinence. Which recommendation should the nurse
implement? - Answer✔✔-Recommend exercises to strengthen the pelvic floor.
Which co-morbidity commonly associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus enhances the
development of the microvascular complications of diabetes mellitus? - Answer✔✔-
Hyperlipidemia
The nurse assists an older man who has type 2 diabetes mellitus to improve his glucose control.
Which of the following instructions does the nurse give to this individual when he plans to walk
more than usual in one day? - Answer✔✔-Supplement caloric intake.
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