Certain psychiatric diagnoses are associated with stereotypes. Which of the following actions ensures that the client's social identity is not discredited?
A) Refer to a client as a paranoid.
B) Refer to a client as a schizophrenic.
C) Refer to a client as X, who has a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
D) Refer to a client as delusional and psychotic.
C
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1. Grieving 2. Fear 3. Risk for Caregiver Role Strain 4. Interrupted family process
The student nurse is taking a multiple-choice test and does not know the answer to a question. What should the student nurse do first?
1. Guess B, because that is the most common answer to multiple-choice questions. 2. Find answers the student knows are incorrect and rule them out. 3. Look at the answer to the previous three questions and choose an answer that was not used. 4. Find answers that are almost correct and choose one of those.
When a patient demonstrates accelerated heart rate, trembling, choking, and chest pain along with acute, intense, and overwhelming anxiety, the nurse recognizes the patient is most likely experiencing:
a. terror. b. fright. c. fear. d. panic.
The community health nurse discussing care of the musculoskeletal system with a small church group informs them that the leading cause of disability in the United States is:
A) Osteoporosis B) Arthritis C) Hip fractures D) Long bone fractures