A client with manic behavior sets a small fire in the dayroom garbage can. Place the nursing interventions in order to ensure client safety. Activate the unit's fire alarm system. Move all clients to a safe, controlled area. Administer prescribed medications to the manic client if indicated. Place the manic client in a quiet environment with low stimulation. Assess all clients for physical injuries and give first aid as needed. Delegate one-to-one observation of the manic client during evacuation.

Effective Counseling Techniques are skills which, when practiced effectively by a knowledgeable person, counselor or not, make possible a trusting environment where a client (or friend) can share what has been held "secretly" or privately. Discuss the above statement.

A client seeks advice from the nurse concerning a friend who has lost a family member. The client is worried about how the friend will overcome the loss. How should a nurse depict the response to major stressors?

If the communication is therapeutic, write “therapeutic” and indicate the therapeutic technique being used.  If the communication is non-therapeutic, indicate the non-therapeutic communication technique that is used and then REWRITE the dialogue to make it therapeutic. A patient angrily complains that the nursing staff never comes when he presses the call bell. The charge nurse tells him “This is a very busy floor.  The nurses will come in as soon as they can – patients with emergencies are more important and need to be seen first.”

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In a one page, plan interventions with rationale which will promote an environment of safety for the described client below.  Consider the client’s medical history and medications. Mr. Joe Smith, 75-year old man, recently suffered a left cerebrovascular accident.  He has right visual field deficits and residual weakness in this right arm and leg.  He uses a walker for mobility.  He takes Metoprolol for his blood pressure and the physician started him on Coumadin because he has recently been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation.

A nursing student is nervous and concerned about the workshe is about to do at the clinical facility. To allay anxiety andbe successful in her provision of care, it is most important forher to:a. Determine the established goals of the institutionb. Be sure her verbal and nonverbal communication iscongruentc. Engage in self-talk to plan her day and decrease her feard. Speak with her fellow colleagues about how they feel

Discuss Dorothea Orem's Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory. Explain the key components of the theory and how it guides nursing interventions for individuals with varying degrees of self-care abilities.

Develop an awareness and understanding of the issues efecting proffesional practice in gerontology today.  Understanding of the issues effecting proffesional practice: this section explores how proffesional practice in yur selected area of interest has changed due to the development of new treatments.  Physical Disease: Arthritis

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