A client, being discharged home after an appendectomy for a ruptured appendix, has an open wound that will require packing with wet-to-dry dressing three times a day. She states, "A nurse will have to come do that, I can't stand to look at it."

To provide the needed self-care, the client will first need to effect change in which domain of learning?
a. Cognitive
b. Psychomotor
c. Affective
d. Skills


ANS: C

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