Reality orientation is
A. orienting a patient to time, place, and person with visual reminders or verbal cues.
B. a form of therapy designed to restore a confused individual to her original mental state.
C. only performed by licensed personnel with a physician's order.
D. a means of accepting and validating the patient's beliefs.
Answer: A
You might also like to view...
A critical care nurse is providing care for a patient who was admitted to the intensive care unit after going into cardiogenic shock while on one of the hospital's medical units
This nurse should plan assessments and interventions in the knowledge that the effects of cardiogenic shock primarily result from: A) Tissue hypoperfusion B) Toxic effects of cardiac biomarkers C) Overcompensation by the autonomic nervous system (ANS) D) Osmotic changes
A patient with chronic pain has been receiving morphine sulfate but now has decreased pain. The prescriber changes the medication to pentazocine [Talwin]. The nurse will monitor the patient for:
a. euphoria. b. hypotension. c. respiratory depression. d. yawning and sweating.
Conducting a study using children as subjects requires all except which of the following?
a. Assent b. Informed consent c. Pilot study d. Permission
View pain as unpleasant and something to be controlled
A. Older Anglo-Saxon Americans and Irish B. Jewish and Italians C. African Americans D. Arab Americans