Often elderly patients are deaf or have difficulty hearing. Also, they have problems with peripheral neuropathy so they don't feel it sometimes if you touch them so that it is usually necessary to feel their radial, apical, or carotid pulse to see if they are just sleeping or if they are in a coma, or dead.
You sent the resident to the doctor, which was the right thing to do.
The practice of medicine involves constant education. The more experience you get in the real world working with patients, then the better nurse you can be for your patients.
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