The nurse is completing the admissioon assessment for a patient scheduled for cataract surgery in the outpatient center. because the patient is over the age of 70 and has several chronic conditions, including hypertension and congestive heart failure, the nurse focuses on completing a thorough medication history.
a. what questions should the nurse include int he medication history?
b. the patient states that she stopped taking one of her medications due to cost, since her health insurance would not reimburse for the medication. what are other reasons that older adults may be noncompliant with ordered medications?
c. how does aging affect drug absorption, metabolism, distribution, and excretion?

Discuss the 2 major types of diabetes insipidus (central and nephrogenic).

Mr. edwards is 20-year-old male patient who is admitted for treatment of recurring pyelonephritis (kidney infection) and surgical treatment of a urinary stricture, which has decreased the urinary stream. mr. edwards has paraplegia; he is paralyzed from the waist down secondary to an automobile accident when he was 16. he came by ambulance to the hospital, leaving his wheelchair and wheelchair pressure- relieving cushion at home. according to the nursing history, the patient is a nonsmoker and he does not drink alcohol or take any illegal drugs. a. what nursing considerations should be made for mr. edwards related to his disability? b. what health promotion and prevention education does mr. edwards need?

Long term care uses adl and iadl scales to measure physical functions. what are these two measures and what purpose do they serve in an ltc.