The nurse is preparing a presentation on cognitive and behavioral perspectives of personality disorders. Which information will the nurse include in the presentation?
1. Behaviors result from an imbalance in brain chemistry.
2. Behaviors occur due to a history of childhood trauma and parental dysfunction.
3. Learned behaviors become inflexible and maladaptive.
4. Learned behaviors result from cultural influences.
3. Learned behaviors become inflexible and maladaptive.
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A critically ill patient with a diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia has been administered acetylcysteine by inhalation. The critical care nurse knows that this medication helps to liquefy secretions in the respiratory tract by
A) increasing the osmolality of mucus. B) decreasing the osmolality of mucus C) breaking the protein bonds that exist in mucus. D) drawing increased amounts of water from interstitial spaces into mucus.
Which nursing theorists have developed theories indicating a paradigm shift occurring in nursing today?
a. Myra Levine and Dorothea Orem b. Rosemarie Parse and Jean Watson c. Sister Callista Roy and Martha Rogers d. Virginia Henderson and Hildegard Peplau
A nurse uses Therapeutic Touch to decrease a postoperative patient's nausea. Which of the following is a principle of this CAT modality?
A) A human being is a closed energy system. B) A human being is bilaterally asymmetric. C) Illness is an imbalance in a person's energy field. D) Humans do not have the ability to transform.
The nurse determines that client at the greatest risk for developing hyperkalemia is the client receiving:
a) furosemide b) atenolol c) hydrocholorthiazide d) spironolactone