A client has severe hearing loss that occurred within the last year. It is important for the nurse to also assess the client for
A) accompanying visual losses.
B) frustration and loneliness.
C) hypertension and heart disease.
D) impaired physical mobility.

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Clients with hearing loss can become frustrated, embarrassed, and lonely, which may all lead to isolation and depression. It is important to assess for these psychosocial consequences of hearing loss. Visual losses do not often accompany hearing loss, hypertension and heart disease are not related to hearing loss, and hearing loss does not cause impaired physical mobility, unless the client curtails activities voluntarily.

A Client Has Severe Hearing Loss That Occurred Within the Last