A patient is recently diagnosed with the onset of Alzheimer's disease. What resources would you recommend for the family so that the patient could stay at home longer? What precautions should be recommended? What type of medications would be useful for the patient?
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The most common type of medication which are useful
A patient is recently diagnosed with the onset of Alzheimer's disease. What resources would you recommend...
Agnes has recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease, a degenerative brain disease, associated with memory loss. Agnes is living alone at home, has recently experienced significant weight loss, and frequently forgets when her last meal was, of if she ate at all. When speaking with you, she ensures you that she had breakfast this morning, but her daughter, Marie, insists that she is forgetting to eat and may be at risk for malnutrition. What are two suggestions you could provide...
Which of the following would be an appropriate care management protocol for a patient recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease? Develop a treatment regimen to return the patient to their former occupation. Provide medication to alleviate symptoms and increase functioning. Advise the patient to consider a nursing or supportive care setting. Maintain their level of functioning for as long as possible.
What do you think a provider would recommend as pain management for that patient? Would it be over-the-counter or require a prescription? What would be the recommended adult dosage? Would there be concerns regarding how long the medication could safely be used? Might there be options other than medications which might help with pain? A patient comes in with severe wrist pain. The pain started shortly after the patient fell down the stairs. When asked to rate their pain on...
What information would you provide to a patient who was recently diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes? post must be a minimum of 500 words.
A new patient in your office reports that she has recently been diagnosed with diabetes mellitus and that her physician suggested that she should have a dental checkup. The patient confides in you that she feels like this disease is really changing her lifestyle. She laughingly says “I have always had such good reports from my previous dentist, and I just don't really see why I need to be worried about my teeth now” Based upon what is known about...
You are a home health nurse caring for a patient who has recently been diagnosed with heart failure and started on Po furosemide (Lasix) daily. The patient tells you she is not taking the medication as prescribed because she was having to get up so much at night and urinate. She is also concerned that she has been having terrible leg cramps, especially at night, since starting the diuretic. What are two key nursing interventions for this patient you are...
Ms. A, a 42-year-old patient who lives alone, recently was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis. She tells you that she will be going home soon and that she is very worried about having to manage her disease. She asks you the following questions. What are your best responses to these questions? 1. “What medications will I have to take?” 2. “When will I be able to stop taking all these pills?” 3. “I’m concerned that they don’t know how much medication...
What health and lifestyle advice should a health care provider give to a patient recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes? Explain your reasoning.
A 60-year-old man was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus. During a visit to the patient’s home, the home care nurse sees the patient eating a large, unhealthy breakfast. When asked about his eating habits, the patient says that he is not very good about keeping his records up to date and that he is just happy that he will never have to give himself insulin shots. What type of patient teaching should be done here, and how could...
A 60-year-old man was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus. During a visit to the patient’s home, the home care nurse sees the patient eating a large, unhealthy breakfast. When asked about his eating habits, the patient says that he is not very good about keeping his records up to date and that he is just happy that he will never have to give himself insulin shots. What type of patient teaching should be done here, and how could...