A nurse is interviewing a client with schizophrenia. During the interview the client states, "My mother went to state college, but that pimple on your cheek must hurt when they cut the lights off at nine at night for lights out."
The nurse knows this is an instance of: A) Attention impairment.
B) Concrete thinking.
C) Loose associations.
D) Memory deficits.
C
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1. Inferential statistics 2. Descriptive statistics 3. Evidence-based practice 4. Secondary use of data
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1. Drug addiction 2. Polysubstance use 3. Drug and alcohol abuse 4. Indiscriminate drug use
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