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The nursing instructor gives their students an assignment of making a plan of care for a client with huntington's disease. what would be important for the students to include in the teaching portion of the care plan?

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Huntington's disease is a progressive brain disorder that brings about uncoordinated movements in patients. It also results in emotional challenges and inability to think. Therefore, the teaching care plan for patients of Huntington's disease should include how to control uncoordinated movement. So the teaching plan should include how to facilitate tasks such as using the two hands to hold a drink.
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What would be important for the students to include in the teaching portion of the care plan is how to facilitate tasks such as using the two hands to hold a drinking glass

Huntington disease is a fatal progressive brain disorder that causes the breakdown of nerve cells in the human brain. Huntington disease is an inherited disease and it is linked to a faulty gene.

Further Explanation

Huntington disease negatively affects a person’s mental and physical abilities and often results in thinking, and movement disorders. Also, as some parts of the brain deteriorate, it will become very hard for someone suffering this disease to talk, reason, and swallow.  

Huntington disease has no cure but adequate treatment could help to cope with the symptoms.

Most people living with Huntington disease don’t show symptoms until when get to the age of 30 and 50, although symptoms can as well appear very early

Some of the major symptoms of Huntington disease include

  • Depressions and mood swing
  • Memory problems and having difficulties when making decisions
  • Movement disorder such as uncontrollable movement
  • Weight loss
  • Difficulty in talking, swallowing, etc

However, some of the symptoms associated with Huntington disease such as uncontrollable movement, jer ky and others can be treated with Tetrabenazine which is approved by FDA

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  • huntington disease
  • students
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