A client scheduled for an operation later in the day tells the nurse that she is anxious and wants the surgery to be over. The nurse correlates which physical finding to the client's moderate degree of anxiety?
1. Difficulty arousing
2. Blood pressure and pulse elevated from baseline
3. Pacing in the hall
4. Crying uncontrollably
Answer: 2
1. Anxiety produces a state of alertness; the client would not be sleeping.
2. The sympathetic nervous system reacts in response to the anxiety, as manifested by the increase in BP and pulse.
3. Pacing would be seen with severe anxiety.
4. Crying would be seen with severe anxiety.
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