The nurse is caring for a client with somatization disorder. When providing a report to the staff for the next shift, it is important for the nurse to relate the:
A) Client's source of the original anxiety.
B) Use of abdominal breathing at the first sign of anxiety.
C) Amount of time the client talked about physical complaints.
D) Trigger for the client's worries.
C
You might also like to view...
The health care provider orders a patient to have a fecal occult blood test. To obtain an accurate result, the nurse instructs the patient to do which of the following?
a. Submit one sample for analysis. b. Take extra amounts of vitamin C supplements. c. Stop taking aspirin 14 days prior to the beginning of the test. d. Refrain from ingesting red meats for 3 days before testing.
A patient is having a procedure that involves cutting through the skin to diagnose a mass located in the left breast. For which type of biopsy should the nurse plan care for this patient?
1. incisional 2. fine-needle 3. needle core 4. excisional
The patient complains of feeling the need to urinate and fullness and tenderness in the bladder area. The patient is restless and diaphoretic. What is the most appropriate initial nursing intervention?
a. Help the patient into a warm tub bath to stimulate voiding. b. Catheterize the patient. c. Palpate the bladder fundus. d. Place heated towels over the bladder area.
The nurse completes triceps skinfold measurement on a client newly admitted to the long-term care facility. In order to obtain the most meaningful data, how soon should the nurse repeat this measurement?
A) 10 days to 2 weeks B) 1 year C) 1 month D) 2 days