NURS 1015 UPDATED COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔sexual abuse - ✔✔-non-consensual sexual contact of any kind, as well as sexual
contact with any older person who is unable to give consent:
-exposure to pornography
-forced voyeurism
-forcing elder to undress
✔✔emotional/psychological abuse - ✔✔-infliction of mental or emotional anguish or pain
through either verbal or non verbal acts
actions that dehumanize an elderly person including social isolation, name-calling,
harassment, humiliating, insulting, threatening to punish, treating an elderly person like
a child, and yelling or screaming
✔✔Indicators of emotional abuse - ✔✔-significant weight fluctuation
-depression
-cowers in abusers presence
-emotionally upset/agitated
-withdrawn/unresponsive
✔✔Exploitation/financial abuse - ✔✔-the act or process whereby an individual illegally
or improperly uses an older person's resources, including property, funds, or other
assets
, ✔✔eldber abuse - ✔✔National Center on Elder Abuse broadly denies and places elder
abuse into three categories:
-domestic
-institutional
-self-neglect or self-abuse
✔✔domestic abuse - ✔✔-abuse within a persons' own home or the home of a caregiver.
this applies to several forms of maltreatment of an older adult by someone such as a
spouse, adult child, or other relative.
-paid caregiver providing home care services may also mistreat an older adult
✔✔institutional abuse - ✔✔-maltreatment that occurs in a facility such as a nursing
home, assisted living facility, foster home, or group home
-perp is usually a staff member or another paid are provider who has a legal or
contractual agreement to provide care to the victim- in some instances, another resident
may be the cause of the abuse
-reports indicate that 60.7% of abuse claims occurred in domestic settings, while 8.3%
occurred within a facility
- this does not minimize the incidence of facility abuse. with a rapidly growing elderly
population, long term residential facility use is expected to rise. studies monitoring
abuse in long term care residential facilities are ongoing.
✔✔self neglect - ✔✔a person's behaviors and way of living that threaten his or her
health, safety, and well-being, by failing to provide for their own basic daily needs. may
result from:
-cognitive impairment
-chronic illness
-it is important to recognize that individuals who are mentally competent and physically
capable may also neglect themselves
✔✔neglect and abandonment - ✔✔-refusal/failure of an individual to fulfill any part of his
or her duties or obligations to an older person, including failing to provide an older
person with necessities such as food, shelter, personal safety, clothing, medicine, and
needed care.
-neglect may also include the failure of a person who has financial responsibilities to
provide care such as paying for needed home care services or the failure of an in-home
paid care provider to deliver needed care
✔✔indicators of neglect - ✔✔-bedsores
-dehydration/malnutrition
-unsafe or unsanitary living conditions
-allowing an alzheimer's patient to wander unsupervised
-increased medical complications due to lack of/improper medication or care
-dressed improperly for weather conditions
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔sexual abuse - ✔✔-non-consensual sexual contact of any kind, as well as sexual
contact with any older person who is unable to give consent:
-exposure to pornography
-forced voyeurism
-forcing elder to undress
✔✔emotional/psychological abuse - ✔✔-infliction of mental or emotional anguish or pain
through either verbal or non verbal acts
actions that dehumanize an elderly person including social isolation, name-calling,
harassment, humiliating, insulting, threatening to punish, treating an elderly person like
a child, and yelling or screaming
✔✔Indicators of emotional abuse - ✔✔-significant weight fluctuation
-depression
-cowers in abusers presence
-emotionally upset/agitated
-withdrawn/unresponsive
✔✔Exploitation/financial abuse - ✔✔-the act or process whereby an individual illegally
or improperly uses an older person's resources, including property, funds, or other
assets
, ✔✔eldber abuse - ✔✔National Center on Elder Abuse broadly denies and places elder
abuse into three categories:
-domestic
-institutional
-self-neglect or self-abuse
✔✔domestic abuse - ✔✔-abuse within a persons' own home or the home of a caregiver.
this applies to several forms of maltreatment of an older adult by someone such as a
spouse, adult child, or other relative.
-paid caregiver providing home care services may also mistreat an older adult
✔✔institutional abuse - ✔✔-maltreatment that occurs in a facility such as a nursing
home, assisted living facility, foster home, or group home
-perp is usually a staff member or another paid are provider who has a legal or
contractual agreement to provide care to the victim- in some instances, another resident
may be the cause of the abuse
-reports indicate that 60.7% of abuse claims occurred in domestic settings, while 8.3%
occurred within a facility
- this does not minimize the incidence of facility abuse. with a rapidly growing elderly
population, long term residential facility use is expected to rise. studies monitoring
abuse in long term care residential facilities are ongoing.
✔✔self neglect - ✔✔a person's behaviors and way of living that threaten his or her
health, safety, and well-being, by failing to provide for their own basic daily needs. may
result from:
-cognitive impairment
-chronic illness
-it is important to recognize that individuals who are mentally competent and physically
capable may also neglect themselves
✔✔neglect and abandonment - ✔✔-refusal/failure of an individual to fulfill any part of his
or her duties or obligations to an older person, including failing to provide an older
person with necessities such as food, shelter, personal safety, clothing, medicine, and
needed care.
-neglect may also include the failure of a person who has financial responsibilities to
provide care such as paying for needed home care services or the failure of an in-home
paid care provider to deliver needed care
✔✔indicators of neglect - ✔✔-bedsores
-dehydration/malnutrition
-unsafe or unsanitary living conditions
-allowing an alzheimer's patient to wander unsupervised
-increased medical complications due to lack of/improper medication or care
-dressed improperly for weather conditions
