The ED nurse is caring for a client with a dissociative fugue. Which sign or symptom would the nurse expect to assess?
1. Pain in one or more sites
2. An inability to recall the past or where he had been
3. At least two distinct personality states
4. A deficit affecting voluntary motor or sensory functions
ANS: 2
Pain (option 1) would relate to a pain disorder. The inability to recall the past (option 2) is indica-tive of a fugue, whereas multiple personality states refer to dissociative identity disorders (option 3). A motor or sensory function deficit (option 4) relates to conversion disorders.
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