Your client, who is in pre-op, is trying to get off her stretcher and leave the unit. She is screaming that they should do her surgery tomorrow; she has other things planned for today
She becomes very combative and is very difficult to reason with; she has no known psychiatric history. You suspect:
1. preoperative anxiety.
2. manic depression.
3. personality disorder.
4. panic.
ANS: 4
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