Tact is doing and saying the right things at the right time

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Mrs. Klein has been in a motor vehicle crash and is in the critical care unit with severe brain injury

She is comatose but when painful stimuli is applied she extends, adducts, and hyperpronates her upper extremities and has plantar flexion of the feet. This abnormal response is termed A) decorticate rigidity. B) decerebrate rigidity. C) clonic-tonic activity. D) athetosis.

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The public health nurse is educating the public at a health fair about Ebola virus. Which statement by an audience member indicates that more teaching is needed?

A) "The virus is spread through contact with bodily fluids." B) "The virus is only spread through sharing contaminated needles." C) "The virus can be transmitted by direct contact with contaminated objects." D) "The virus can be transmitted through inhalation of droplets."

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You observe a patient who has a diagnosis of schizophrenia. The patient is waiting for his or her significant other to arrive

When the visitor arrives, the patient tells the visitor that he or she is much too busy to talk right now, but at the same time the patient pulls another chair to the table. You note this as an example of: A) Autism B) Ambivalence C) Appropriate affect D) Anhedonia

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Glipizide (Glucotrol), a sulfonylurea, is prescribed for W.V.'s hyperglycemia. W.V. asks if this

means he is now a diabetic. How would you answer him? What will be an ideal response?

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