A verbally abusive partner has told a significant other many negative comments over the years. In the crisis center, the nurse would anticipate that the patient may have which self-concept deficits?
a. Body image
b. Role confusion
c. Rigidity
d. Yearning
ANS: A
Over the years of marriage, the significant other incorporates this devaluation into his or her own self-concept, negatively affecting body image. The way others view a person's body and the feedback offered are also influential on body image and self-concept. Role confusion is part of a developmental task (identity versus role confusion) for adolescents. Rigidity and yearning are not components of self-concept.
You might also like to view...
The nurse is caring for a patient with schizophrenia who is experiencing auditory hallucinations. The patient tells the nurse, "The voices in my head are telling me to do things that I don't want to do."
When planning care for this patient, what is the priority nursing diagnosis that the nurse will formulate? 1. Risk for violence caused by schizophrenia, manifested by command hallucinations. 2. Risk for violence due to auditory hallucinations, as evidenced by command hallucinations. 3. Disturbed thought processes due to schizophrenia, as evidenced by command hallucinations. 4. Disturbed thought processes due to auditory hallucinations, manifested by command hallucinations.
Which teaching strategy is typically most effective for presenting information to large groups?
1) Distributing printed materials 2) Lecturing using audiovisual format 3) Human patient simulation 4) Using computer-assisted instruction (CAI)
The nurse of an elderly patient would monitor renal excretion of drugs by assessing:
a. creatinine clearance. b. serum creatinine levels. c. white blood cell counts. d. blood urea nitrogen.
What is meant by the term generation time with regard to cancer development?
A. The rate at which cancer cells are able to migrate and metastasize to different sites B. The amount of time it takes for a malignant tumor to double in size by mitotic cell divisions C. The period of time necessary for one cell to enter and complete one round of cell division by mitosis D. The period of time between when a carcinogen damages the DNA of a cell and when that cell expresses malignant characteristics