Question

TULLT UTILE REVIEW QUESTIONS Prepu

1. What is the best nursing action for preventing frustra-
tion and agitation when an older client with dementia
asks about his or her mother who is deceased?
1. Explain that the client's mother is dead gently.
2. Tell the client that his or her mother will visit a little
later.
3. Say “You miss your mother. What was she like?”
4. Ask when the client last saw his or her mother.

Answer 1

I think 3 because the first one would both cause frustration and because she has dementia she wouldn’t understand, the second one is lying to her, 4 asking someone who has dementia you wouldn’t get an accurate date or time