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A Home Health Nurse Is Assembling a Puzzle with an Elderly

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A home health nurse is assembling a puzzle with an elderly patient and notices that the patient is having difficulty connecting two puzzle pieces.The nurse knows that this is most likely related to which aspect of sensory deprivation?


Definitions:

Fight-or-Flight Response

A physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival, initiating rapid bodily changes for emergency action.

Sympathetic

Pertaining to the part of the autonomic nervous system that typically prepares the body for action by accelerating the heart rate, constricting blood vessels, and raising blood pressure.

Parasympathetic

Part of the autonomic nervous system responsible for conserving energy and restoring the body to a state of calm.

Parasympathetic

Part of the autonomic nervous system responsible for conserving energy and slowing down the heart rate.

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