A client who is depressed is participating in cognitive-behavioral therapy. He is coached to identify his irrational thoughts, and then to:
a. forget them
b. substitute positive thoughts
c. understand them
d. dissociate from them
B
A depressed client participating in cognitive-behavioral therapy would be coached to identify his irrational thoughts and then to substitute positive thoughts. The therapist will work with the client to determine specifically in what settings the undesired thoughts or behaviors occur. Then the therapist will help the client focus on alternatives to the specific thoughts or actions and works to help the client feel that he can truly use these alternatives.
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A client has a health insurance plan that has capitated rates. Capitated rates in health maintenance organizations (HMOs) means that:
a. the recipient directly pays the provider for services when they are performed. b. the recipient is directly reimbursed from an insurance company for services they paid for in advance. c. a preset flat fee per member is paid to a provider whether the members use services or not. d. the government reimburses the health care provider for every client they deliver services to.
Which of the following are considered poor scholarly writing and, consequently, should not appear in a published research report? (Select all that apply.)
a. "Subjects who could not decide whether to select A, B, or C as item options were instructed to leave the item blank." b. "Regardless of amount of the independent variable of electricity that was applied, dependent variable changes were negligible thus indicating lack of causation." c. "Any subject desiring to retract their permission for the study had his or her name removed from the master list." d. "Erstwhile subjects had little insight into the retained fragments of their sublimated ignoscency."
A patient who has received a bone marrow transplant develops a maculopapular rash on the palms of both hands and the soles of the feet. The patient complains of severe abdominal pain with bloody diarrhea
What should the nurse suspect this patient is experiencing? 1. graft-versus-host disease 2. chronic tissue rejection 3. acute tissue rejection 4. hyperacute tissue rejection
As part of the data-gathering that is being conducted to identify baselines prior to an evidence-based practice initiative, a nurse will be using software to analyze the data statistically
Which of the following levels of data is most likely to produce clinically useful results? A) Ordinal B) Ratio C) Nominal D) Cardinal