Milieu therapy is a therapeutic application for people with personality disorders. What principle(s) underscore(s) the basis of this method? (Select all that apply.)
a. Maintaining a structured environment
b. Participating as a member of the struc-tured environment
c. Practicing appropriate social behavior
d. Actively attempting to modify behavior
e. Learning to modify feelings and emotional responses
A, B, C, D, E
Milieu therapy provides all these options for treating people with personality disorders.
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A. "I've been taking extra doses of vitamin A because I heard it will make my skin look very nice." B. "If I get a headache or my back hurts, I usually take two acetaminophen tablets and rest for a while." C. "I have had diabetes for many years. Since I've been pregnant, I've noticed that I need a little more insulin every day." D. "When I get occasional gastric acid problems, I take a ranitidine (Zantac) tablet and that really helps."
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A) 70 mg/dL B) 100 mg/dL C) 110 mg/dL D) 130 mg/dL
For the client receiving droperidol, the nurse should monitor for:
a. orthostatic hypotension. c. narrow-angle glaucoma. b. sedation. d. tardive dyskinesia.
A child is born with ambiguous genitalia. The only way to identify if the child is male or female is to obtain an order for:
1. An ultrasound. 2. A follicle stimulating hormone test. 3. An estrogen level test. 4. A sexual chromosome test.