Which personality disorder has as its essential feature a grandiose sense of self-importance and inflated self-esteem, both beginning by early adulthood?
a. avoidant personality disorder
b. dependent personality disorder
c. histrionic personality disorder
d. narcissistic personality disorder
D
The narcissistic personality disorder has as its essential feature a grandiose sense of self-importance and inflated self-esteem, both beginning by early adulthood. Individuals with avoidant, dependent, and histrionic personality disorders tend to have poor self-esteem.
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a. Mental status assessment diagnoses specific psychiatric disorders. b. Mental disorders occur in response to everyday life stressors. c. Mental status functioning is inferred through the assessment of an individual's behaviors. d. Mental status can be directly assessed, similar to other systems of the body (e.g., heart sounds, breath sounds).
A 70-year-old woman has received a diagnosis of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) after a clinical investigation sparked by the presence of leukocytosis in her routine blood work
What clinical course should her care provider tell her to expect? A) "You can expect your blood results, fatigue, and susceptibility to infection to gradually worsen over a few years." B) "You could remain the chronic stage of CML for several years before it accelerates and culminates in a crisis." C) "It's likely that this will give you chronic fatigue and malaise for the rest of your life, but that will probably be the extent of your symptoms." D) "Unfortunately, your leukemia will likely enter a crisis mode within a few weeks if we don't treat it immediately."
A care modality is a:
a. method of organizing and delivering nursing care. b. staffing grid that outlines nursing unit work schedules. c. place or unit in which care is delivered. d. unit that specializes in caring for a specific population.
A pregnant woman asks the nurse about taking an antacid for indigestion. what is the nurses best response?
a. you wont be allowed to take an antacid while you are pregnant b. lets check with your obstetrician to see what is recommended c. go ahead and use an Al based antacid d. sodium bicarbonate would be the safest choice