A nurse allows a patient to place pictures of the family in the room. Which need is being met?

a. Basic needs
b. Physiological needs
c. Self-actualization
d. Love and belongingness


D
In Maslow's hierarchy of needs, the third level on the hierarchy is love and belongingness, which is a desire to belong to groups. It consists of the need to feel love by others and to be accepted. The highest level of needs on the hierarchy is self-actualization, which is the desire to become everything that one is capable of becoming. The lowest level of needs on the hierarchy consists of very basic physiological needs such as oxygen, water, food, sleep, and sex.

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The nurse knows that planning for recovery can begin:

1. At discharge. 2. Once the client expresses a need for greater autonomy. 3. At admission. 4. With an inflexible treatment team.

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Which are basic reasons a treatment plan may be ineffective? (Select all that apply.)

a. Goal content focuses on medical facts. b. Goal content is not in a handout. c. Goal content has four objectives. d. Goal content is measurable. e. Goal content focuses on behavior.

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How does effect size relate to instrument sensitivity?

a. If an instrument is sensitive, it will have a large effect size. b. If an instrument is not very sensitive, it will take a large effect size for the instrument to detect a difference. c. As an instrument is better calibrated and becomes more sensitive, it increases effect size. d. If an instrument is extremely sensitive, it will detect a difference even when none exists; because of this effect sizes must be large.

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The nurse is caring for a client who died shortly after arriving in the emergency department for resuscitative care. The family states they do not want an autopsy. Which does the nurse include in family teaching?

1. The family can specify limitations to the autopsy. 2. State law requires an autopsy for a coroner's case. 3. Organ and tissue donation is impossible after autopsy. 4. Families can decline the autopsy for religious reasons.

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