The nurse is assessing an older adult client who was brought into the emergency department for an undetermined illness.The client lives with an adult child and grandchildren.Which assessment finding will cause the nurse to consider the possibility of elder abuse?
A) The client is wearing soiled adult incontinence underwear.
B) The client has an unscabbed skin tear across the left wrist.
C) The client has multiple bruises in various stages of healing.
D) The client is alone, and the adult child is not coming.
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