After a Young Adult Client Has Returned Home Following Rehabilitation

question 1

Multiple Choice

After a young adult client has returned home following rehabilitation for a spinal cord injury, the home care nurse notes that the partner is performing many of the activities that the client had been managing during rehabilitation. Which of the followingactions by the nurse is most appropriate at this time?

• A)Tell the partner that the client can perform activities independently.
• B)Remind the client about the importance of independence in daily activities.
• C)Develop a plan to increase the client's independence in consultation with the client and the partner.
• D)Recognize that it is important for the partner to be involved in the client's care and support the partner's participation.

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Definitions:

Central 68%

Refers to the property in a normal distribution where approximately 68% of the data points lie within one standard deviation of the mean.

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The arithmetic average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding them together and dividing by the count of the numbers.

Z-score

A numerical metric indicating how a specific value compares to the average of a dataset, expressed by the number of standard deviations away from that average.