While Admitting an 80-Year-Old with Heart Failure to the Hospital

question 9

Multiple Choice

While admitting an 80-year-old with heart failure to the hospital, the nurse learns that the patient lives alone and sometimes confuses the "water pill" with the "heart pill." When planning for the patient's discharge the nurse will facilitate

• A) transfer to a dementia care service.
• B) referral to a home health care agency.
• C) placement in a long-term care facility.
• D) arrangements for around-the-clock care.

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Definitions:

Stimulus

An event or object that evokes a specific response from an organism or system.

Hebb Rule

a theory in neuroscience that proposes an increase in synaptic efficacy arises from the presynaptic cell's repeated and persistent stimulation of the postsynaptic cell.

Synapse

A junction between two nerve cells, consisting of a minute gap across which impulses pass by diffusion of a neurotransmitter.

Long-Term Potentiation

A process, hypothesized to be a mechanism for long-term learning, in which neural circuits in the hippocampus are subjected to repeated and intense electrical stimulation, resulting in hippocampal cells that are more sensitive to stimuli than they were previously.