The most reliable indicator of neurologic status is:
1. blood pressure.
2. pulse rate.
3. temperature.
4. level of consciousness.
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The ability to respond readily and correctly to person, place, and time is good evidence of intact sensorium.
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A nurse therapist is using cognitive therapy to address anxiety. This entails encouraging the client to face frightening situations to be able to view them:
A) In a positive manner. B) In a cautious manner. C) In a realistic manner. D) In an individualized manner.
The client who has schizophrenia and exhibits the symptom of alogia will display which of the following behaviors?
a. inability to use common sense and logic b. rapid speech c. sparse (little) speech with brief, empty phrases d. argumentativeness
The goal of grounded theory research is to
a. develop theories and hypotheses based on research findings. b. establish an ethnographic perspective on subjects. c. provide validity checks for constructs. d. test theoretical constructs and hypotheses.
When the patient restricts use of her dominant arm because of pain and the nurse notes that the measurement of the circumference of the patient's nondominant arm is greater
than her dominant arm, the nurse determines that the lack of use has resulted in the dominant arm's A) Atrophy B) Hypertrophy C) Dystrophy D) Malrotation