The Nurse Is Completing an Endocrine-Focused Health Assessment Interview with an Older

question 27

Multiple Choice

The nurse is completing an endocrine-focused health assessment interview with an older adult. What finding should the nurse suspect is related to an age-related change in the patient's thyroid function?

• A) inability to tolerate heat and cold
• B) indigestion and intolerance of fatty foods
• C) increased facial hair
• D) enlarged nose, hands, and feet

Identify the effects of stereotype vulnerability on test performance and intellectual assessment.

Evaluate the evidence and theories related to ethnic and social class differences in IQ scores.

Understand the triarchic theory of intelligence by Robert Sternberg.

Recognize the different types of intelligence according to Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences.

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