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Problem

The nurse is visiting a patient who lives alone at home. While talking with the patient's family caregiver, the nurse learns that the patient has been missing doses of medications. The patient currently self-medicates. The nurse wants to perform interventions to improve the patient's adherence. Which of the following will affect how this nurse will make clinical decisions about how to help the patient improve adherence? (Select all that apply.) 1. Reviewing the family caregiver's understanding of purpose of medications 2. Determining the value the patient places on taking medications 3. Reviewing the number of medications and time each is to be taken 4. Determining patient's perceptions of consequences associated with missing specific medicines 5. Reviewing the therapeutic actions of the medications 8. The nurse enters a patient's room and finds that the patient was incontinent of liquid stool. Because the patient has recurrent redness in the perineal area, the nurse worries about the risk of the patient developing a pressure injury. The nurse cleanses the patient, inspects the skin, and applies a skin barrier ointment to the perineal area. Get the instant assignment help. The nurse consults the wound and ostomy care nurse specialist for recommended skin care measures. Which correctly describe the nurse's actions?