Your patient, Mrs. Hettie Lamont, is an 85-year-old widow with a recent left-sided CVA who lives alone and has been admitted to your acute care medical floor. Here is some relevant information from her history and physical:

- Slurred speech and facial drooping
- Left arm is flaccid and she tells you "I can't feel it at all"
- Incontinent of urine and stool and wears adult briefs
- She seems A&O x 3 but can have times of slight confusion
- She is NPO and is waiting for a swallowing assessment. Her daughter states she "eats like a bird"
- IV normal saline
- She is too weak to ambulate and needs assistance to sit in the chair.

1. What is her Braden scale score?
2. What would be appropriate interventions?
3. How often would you reassess your patient for the risk of skin breakdown?

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Your patient, Mrs. Hettie Lamont, is an 85-year-old widow with a recent left-sided CVA who lives alone and has been admitted to your acute care medical floor. Here is some relevant information from her history and physical:

- Slurred speech and facial drooping
- Left arm is flaccid and she tells you "I can't feel it at all"
- Incontinent of urine and stool and wears adult briefs
- She seems A&O x 3 but can have times of slight confusion
- She is NPO and is waiting for a swallowing assessment. Her daughter states she "eats like a bird"
- IV normal saline
- She is too weak to ambulate and needs assistance to sit in the chair.

1. What is her Braden scale score?
2. What would be appropriate interventions?
3. How often would you reassess your patient for the risk of skin breakdown?

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Question Text	Your patient, Mrs. Hettie Lamont, is an 85-year-old widow with a recent left-sided CVA who lives alone and has been admitted to your acute care medical floor. Here is some relevant information from her history and physical: - Slurred speech and facial drooping - Left arm is flaccid and she tells you "I can't feel it at all" - Incontinent of urine and stool and wears adult briefs - She seems A&O x 3 but can have times of slight confusion - She is NPO and is waiting for a swallowing assessment. Her daughter states she "eats like a bird" - IV normal saline - She is too weak to ambulate and needs assistance to sit in the chair. 1. What is her Braden scale score? 2. What would be appropriate interventions? 3. How often would you reassess your patient for the risk of skin breakdown?
Topic	All topics
Subject	Biology
Class	Class 11

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