When Using the Various Instruments to Assess an Older Person's

question 9

Multiple Choice

When using the various instruments to assess an older person's ADLs,the nurse needs to remember that a disadvantage of these instruments includes:

• A)the reliability of the tools.
• B)the self or proxy report of functional activities.
• C)the lack of confidentiality during the assessment.
• D)insufficient detail about the deficiencies identified.

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Definitions:

Institutional Review Board

A committee that reviews and oversees the ethical aspects of research involving human subjects, ensuring the protection of their rights and welfare.

Ethical

Pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; relating to right and wrong in conduct.

Psychological Experiments

Research methods used in psychology to collect data and test hypotheses, often involving controlled conditions and variables to study behavior and mental processes.

Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a data set, a measure of central tendency in statistics.