A patient diagnosed with dementia associated with excessive alcohol use is shown a pencil,a nickel,and a safety pin and asked to repeat the names of each.Later when asked to identify these three items the patient is unable to do so.The nurse assesses this as:
A) apraxia.
B) agnosia.
C) concreteness.
D) catastrophizing.
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