You are caring for a client when another nurse assistant approaches you and wants you to come and see something. As you follow her, she gets to a client’s room and starts to open the door without knocking. She then tells you that a client married couple of the facility are being intimate. She is snickering and says: “I didn’t think it was possible at their age.” What do you do?

You are caring for a client when another nurse assistant approaches you and wants you to come and see something. As you follow her, she gets to a client’s room and starts to open the door without knocking. She then tells you that a client married couple of the facility are being intimate. She is snickering and says: “I didn’t think it was possible at their age.” What do you do?

Biomedical Instrumentation Systems

1st Edition

ISBN:9781133478294

Author:Chatterjee

Publisher:Chatterjee

Chapter1: Introduction To Biomedical Instrumentation Systems

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