A person begins to experience auditory hallucinations and paranoid delusional thinking during freshman year in college. The person is unable to pass the semester's courses and has to withdraw from the college
A nurse applying Margaret Newman's Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness would describe this person as having reached a: a. self-care deficit
b. choice point
c. culture shock
d. line of resistance
B
According to Newman, when a person's patterns have been disrupted and activities that had been successful in the past are not effective in handling the disruption, the person has reached a choice point. In the situation presented, the student's experience of hallucinations and delusional thinking is interfering with performing effectively. The student makes the choice to withdraw from college.
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