A person in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease recognizes he is having a problem and may fabricate stories and make excuses to cover for memory loss.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
True
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A patient who went away to college in September returns in October, thinking that he is a drummer in a popular rock band. What is this most likely a manifestation of?
a. Dissociative disorder b. Conversion disorder c. Schizophrenia d. Amnesia
The nurse is preparing an educational program for parents of children with celiac disease. To develop a successful program for this community, which concept is important for the nurse to employ?
a. Treat the relationship with the community as a partnership. b. The nurse alone has the power to shape and influence the behaviors of the community members. c. Current community values only play a small role in changing behaviors of community members. d. There is usually no need to include community leaders when developing a program for the community.
A client is not certain whether she and her family should participate in a genetic screening plan
She asks the nurse why the X-linked recessive disorder that has been noted in some of her family members is expressed in males more frequently than in females. What is the nurse's best re-sponse? a. "The disease tends to show up in males because they don't have a second X chromosome to balance expression of the gene." b. "One X chromosome of a pair is always inactive in females. This inactivity effec-tively negates the effects of the gene." c. "Females are known to have more effec-tive DNA repair mechanisms than males, thus negating the damage caused by the recessive gene." d. "Expression of genes from the male's Y chromosome does not occur in females, so they are essentially immune to the effects of the gene."
A nurse manager is asking the staff how to improve conditions on the unit. A new nurse on the unit relates that a client complained because family members were able to hear the verbal report outside the room during nursing rounds
The nurse might suggest that: 1. Nursing rounds take place in instead of outside of the client's room. 2. The unit be closed to family and visitors during rounds. 3. Clients be allowed to choose whether a written or oral report is used. 4. Nurses tape record their reports outside the room.