Looking at a slightly bleeding paper cut, the client screams, "Somebody help me quick! I'm bleeding. Call 911!" A nurse should identify this behavior as characteristic of which personality disorder?
1. Schizoid personality disorder
2. Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
3. Histrionic personality disorder
4. Paranoid personality disorder
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Rationale: The nurse should identify this behavior as characteristic of histrionic personality disorder. Individuals with this disorder tend to be self-dramatizing, attention seeking, over gregarious, and seductive.
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word