When a 25-year-old woman who had a hysterectomy 1 day earlier tearfully tells the nurse that she is grieving for the children she will never have, the nurse assesses the grief as positive. What does grief allow this patient to achieve?
a. Focus on her loss.
b. Forget about her concern.
c. Reappraise her values for the future.
d. Depend on others for grief support.
C
Grief and mourning signify an end to something. After the mourning, the patient is free to reap-praise values for the future.
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1. Run normal saline at 125 mL/hour. 2. Run 5% dextrose in water at 80 mL/hour. 3. Run 5% dextrose in 0.45% NaCl at 75 mL/hour. 4. Run half-normal saline at 200 mL/hour.
The nurse is talking with the mother of a client who is diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury. The mother states that she has never seen the client lash out when frustrated or throw things across the room
Which instruction, made by the nurse, is most correct? A) "The client may be experiencing a change in affect due to the brain injury." B) "The client has demonstrated this behavior before and is now anticipated." C) "The client has underlying aggression problems, which manifest in behavior." D) "All traumatic brain injury clients act in this similar way."
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a. Tattooing can be expensive. b. Causing subjects to become multiply tattooed, so as to cause their teeth to fall out, is ethically questionable. c. Random assignment to group would be impossible. d. The researcher cannot cause subjects' teeth to fall out; that would be ethically questionable. e. The study would have to be designed as a large-sample, multisite design.
What evaluative parameters could you use to determine whether C.B.'s nutritional needs
were being met? What will be an ideal response?