Explain the importance of the health professional understanding self when dealing with clients who are angry, aggressive, or have been either the abused or the abuser
Health professionals need to avoid stereotyping and feelings of distrust, anger, and avoidance of clients such as described above. This is especially important when health professionals themselves have been in these situations. Professionals' feelings need to be addressed so that they can therapeutically communicate with clients.
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In addition to the depth of the burn, the _______ of a burn is determined by the amount of body _______ area affected
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
A physician is using a pressure support protocol to wean a patient off ventilatory support. The patient is now at a 5 cm H2O pressure level and has a spontaneous respiratory rate of 21/min
Other cardiovascular and respiratory signs indicate that the patient remains stable. Which of the following actions would you recommend at this point? a. Switch the patient to 5 cm H2O continu-ous positive airway pressure (CPAP) through the endotracheal tube. b. Extubate the patient and provide supple-mental O2. c. Switch the patient to intermittent manda-tory ventilation at a rate of 2/min. d. Decrease the pressure support level to 3 cm H2O.
Immediately after surgery, __________ is placed on the face over the extraction site
a. heat b. nothing c. ice d. moist heat
Evisceration of an abdominal wound is:
a. filling in of a wound from bottom up b. excessive scar formation after surgery c. protrusion of viscera through all tissue layers d. single- or multi-layer separation of wound edges