The nurse is assessing a client admitted with complaints related to ch

The nurse is assessing a client admitted with complaints related to chronic kidney dysfunction. The nurse recognizes that this client is most likely to present with which of the resulting symp-toms?

1. Anemia
2. Hypotension
3. Diabetes mellitus
4. Clinical depression

ANSWER

ANS: 1
Clients with chronic alterations in kidney function cannot produce sufficient quantities of the hormone erythropoietin; therefore they are prone to anemia. Diabetes mellitus may be a cause of the renal dysfunction, and the client may or may not be depressed. Hypertension, not hypoten-sion, is a typical outcome of kidney dysfunction.