Gerontological Nursing Exam Questions and Answers Latest Update 2025 (100% Pass)
The nurse is performing an assessment on an older adult client. What assessment data would indicate a potential complication associated with the skin of this client?- Crusting, Wrinkling, or thinning/loss of elastic...
The nurse is performing an assessment on an older adult client. What assessment data would indicate a
potential complication associated with the skin of this client?- Crusting, Wrinkling, or thinning/loss of
elasticity of skin - Answers Crusting- indicates a potential complication
The nurse who volunteers at a senior citizens' center is planning activities for the members. What
activity would best promote health and maintenance? - Answers Walking 3-5 times per week for 30
minutes. Exercise and activity are essential for health promotion and maintenance.
The home health nurse is visiting a client for the first time. While assessing the client's medication, it is
noted that there are 19 prescription and several over the counter medications that the client is taking.
What intervention should the nurse take first? - Answers Determine whether there are medication
duplications. Polypharamacy is a concern in the geriatric population.
The nurse is working with older clients in a long term care facility. Which activities performed by the
nurse fosters reminiscence among these clients? - Answers Having storytelling hours- clients who like to
retell stories or past events need to be provided time to do so. It is a way for the older adult to relive
and restructure life experiences and is a part of achieving ego identity.
The home care nurse is performing an environmental assessment in the home of an older adult. Which
of the following requires immediate nursing action?
Unsecured scattered rugs, operable smoke detector, or prefilled medication cassette? - Answers
Unsecured scattered rugs- trauma to the older client in the home may be caused by a variety of factors.
These include unsteady gait, the presence of unsecured scatter rugs, clattered passageways, and
inoperable smoke detectors.
The nurse is teaching an older client about measures to prevent constipation. What statement made by
the client indicates further teaching is needed?
-"I'll walk 1-2 miles everyday"
-"I need to decrease fiber in my diet"
-"I have a bowel movement everyday"
-"I drink 6-8 glasses of water everyday" - Answers "I need to decrease fiber in my diet" -Adequate
dietary fiber is an important factor in aiding bowel function. Dietary fiber increases fecal weight and
water content and accelerates the transit of fecal mass through the GI tract.
Define Ageism. - Answers Ageism is a form of prejudice in which older adults are stereotyped by
characteristics found in only a few members of their group. Fundamental to ageism is the view that
,older persons are different from "me" and will remain different from "me." Therefore, they are
portrayed as not experiencing the same desires, needs, and concerns.
The nurse is providing medication instructions to an older client who is taking digoxin (Lanoxin) daily.
What age related body changes could place the client at risk for digoxin toxicity? - Answers Decreased
lean body mass and decreased glomerular filtration rate.
The nurse employed in a long term care facility is caring for an older male client. What nursing action
contributes to encouraging autonomy in the client?
-Planning meals -Scheduling appts
-Decorating his room -He chooses activities - Answers Client choosing own activities. Autonomy is the
personal freedom to direct one's own life as long as it does not impinge on the rights of others. An
autonomous person is capable of rational thought.
The home care nurse is visiting an older female client whose husband died 6 months ago. What behavior
by the client indicates ineffective coping?
- Neglect personal grooming
-Looking at old pictures
-Participating in senior citizens' program
-Visiting her husband's grave - Answers Neglecting personal grooming. Coping mechanisms are
behaviors used to decrease anxiety and stress. In response to death, ineffective coping is manifested by
an extreme behavior that in some cases may be harmful to the individual.
The nurse is providing instructions to a nursing assistant regarding care of an older client with hearing
loss. The nurse tells the assistant that clients with a hear loss: - Answers Respond to low pitched tones.
Prebycusis refers to the age related irreversible degenerative changes of the inner eat that lead to
decreased hearing ability. As a result of these changes, the older client has a decreased response to high
frequency sounds. Low pitched voice tones are heard more easily and can be interpreted by the older
client.
The nurse is providing an educational session to new employees, and the topic is abuse of the older
adult. The nurse helps the employees identify that which client is most typical of a victim of abuse?
- 75 y.o man with moderate hypertension
, - 68 y.o man with newly dx cataracts
- 90 y.o woman with advanced Parkinson's dz
-70 y.o woman with early dx Lyme dz - Answers 90 y.o woman with advanced Parkinson's dz. Elder
abuse is widespread and occurs among all subgroups of the population. Elder abuse includes physical
and psychological abuse, misuse of property, and violation of rights. The typical abuse victim is a woman
of advanced age with few social contacts and at least one physical or mental impairment that limits her
ability to perform activities of daily living.
The nurse is performing an assessment on an older client who is having difficulty sleeping at night. What
statement by the client indicates education is needed on improving sleep?
-"I swim 3 times a week"
-"I have stopped smoking cigars."
-"I drink hot chocolate before bed"
-"I read for 40 min at bedtime." - Answers "I drink hot chocolate before bed" Many nonpharmacological
sleep aids can be used to influence sleep. The client should avoid caffeinated beverages and stimulants
such as tea, cola, and chocolate. The client should exercise regularly, because exercise promotes sleep
by burning off tension that accumulates during the day. The client should sleep on a firm mattress.
Smoking and alcohol should be avoided. The client should also avoid large meals, peanuts, beans, fruit
and raw veggies that produce gas, and snacks high in fat that are difficult to digest.
The visiting nurse observes that the older male client is confined by his daughter to his room. When the
nurse suggests that he walk into the den and join everyone, he says "I'm in everyone's way, my daughter
needs me to stay here." The most important action for the nurse is to: - Answers Suggest appropriate
resources to the client and daughter-in-law, such as respite care and a senior citizens' center. Assisting
clients and families to become aware of available community support systems is a role and responsibility
of the nurse.
Gerontologic Specialty Certification - Answers The number of older people continues to increase; the
need for specialized knowledge becomes even more critical in every specialty and every health care
setting; In 1974, geriatric nursing was the first certification program offered by the ANA and nursing was
the first professional group to develop standards of care and certification in the field of gerontology
Define the Neuroendocrine Theory. - Answers Based on the integration of the neuroendocrine and
immune systems; emphasis is on the programmed deaths of the immune cells from damage caused by
the increase of free radicals as aging progresses; the reduced T cells are thought to be responsible for
hastening the age-related changes caused by autoimmune reaction as the body battles itself; healthy
cells are mistaken for foreign substances and are attacked.
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