The psychodynamic approach looks at human behavior and acknowledges
a. People are unique and paradoxical
b. People are generally psychic
c. People are complex
d. People lack motivation
A, C
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A) Incontinence, Functional, related to neurosensory and musculoskeletal changes B) Fluid Volume Deficit related to metabolic changes secondary to drug therapy C) Confusion, Chronic, related to CNS changes resulting from adverse drug effects D) Risk for Injury related to loss of vision or thrombotic events
While assessing a patient's nutritional status the nurse notes the patient has an irregular gum line with dry cracked lips and tongue. These findings would indicate which of the following to the nurse?
1. iron deficiency 2. fluid overload 3. vitamin C deficiency 4. vitamin D deficiency
What disorder of the chest best describes this disorder?
A 36-year-old teacher presents to your clinic, complaining of sharp, knifelike pain on the left side of her chest for the last 2 days. Breathing and lying down make the pain worse, while sitting forward helps her pain. Tylenol and ibuprofen have not helped. Her pain does not radiate to any other area. She denies any upper respiratory or gastrointestinal symptoms. Her past medical history consists of systemic lupus. She is divorced and has one child. She denies any tobacco, alcohol, or drug use. Her mother has hypothyroidism and her father has high blood pressure. On examination you find her to be distressed, leaning over and holding her left arm and hand to her left chest. Her blood pressure is 130/70, her respirations are 12, and her pulse is 90. On auscultation her lung fields have normal breath sounds with no rhonchi, wheezes, or crackles. Percussion and palpation are unremarkable. Auscultation of the heart has an S1 and S2 with no S3 or S4. A scratching noise is heard at the lower left sternal border, coincident with systole; leaning forward relieves some of her pain. She is nontender with palpation of the chest wall. A) Angina pectoris B) Pericarditis C) Dissecting aortic aneurysm D) Pleural pain
Which of the following is an early warning sign of hypertrophic pyloric stenosis?
a. the infant looking and acting somewhat sick b. the infant being hungry and wanting to feed again very soon after vomiting c. milk running out of the infant's mouth periodically during the feeding d. unusually loud burping sounds