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A Home Health Nurse Is Assembling a Puzzle with an Older-Adult

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A home health nurse is assembling a puzzle with an older-adult patient and notices that the patient is having difficulty connecting two puzzle pieces. Which aspect of sensory deprivation will the nurse document as being most affected?


Definitions:

Delusions

False beliefs held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary, often observed in psychiatric conditions.

Compulsions

Repetitive actions or rituals that an individual feels driven to perform, often in response to obsessive thoughts, aimed at reducing anxiety or preventing a dreaded event or situation.

Phobic Reaction

An intense and irrational fear response to a specific object, situation, or activity, leading to avoidance behavior.

Enlarged Brain Ventricles

A condition where the fluid-filled spaces in the brain, known as ventricles, are abnormally large.

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