What Patients Would Be Considered "At Risk" Consumers During a Healthcare

question 11

Multiple Choice

What patients would be considered "at risk" consumers during a healthcare visit? (Select all that apply.)

• A)Clyde requires an anticoagulant.He tells the nurse about his medications.He does not include an herbal supplement.
• B)George is very shy and withdrawn.He asks the nurse to leave him alone.
• C)Sarah is a new parent who finds that nurses on the children's unit are very helpful.She is eager to accept all suggestions, including those that she does not yet understand.
• D)Claude is booked for bowel surgery.His doctor explains about the colostomy.Later, Claude tells his wife that he really doesn't know what the doctor meant by colostomy.

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