Monty is a 4-year-old boy who has been admitted to the hospital with pneumonia. He has been in the hospital for 3 days and has suddenly started to become incontinent of urine. This is most likely a result of what ego-defense mechanism?
A. Compensation
B. Conversion
C. Denial
D. Regression
D
Regression is coping with a stressor through actions and behaviors associated with an earlier developmental period.
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When appropriately addressing safety issues, the geriatric nurse plans the patient's care plan directed by the standard of care that requires
a. promoting both health and wellness by assuring safety. b. minimizing the patient's risk for physical injury while preserving autonomy. c. identifying safety from injury as a patient right. d. emphasizing beneficence as a an ethical standard of nursing care.
A nurse plans to engage in participant observation while conducting a mental status examination. This will require the nurse to:
a. increase verbalization with the patient. b. listen attentively to the patient's response. c. engage in communication and observation simultaneously. d. advise the patient on what to do about data obtained during the interview.
Nurse is aware that there are numerous bioethical issues involved in the practice or euthanasia. Which of the following events most clearly constitutes active euthanasia?
A) A woman chooses not to phone 911 when her elderly husband become unconscious in the home. B) At his and his wife's request, a doctor provides a man with a fatal dose of phenytoin. C) A nurse withholds cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) from a patient in light of the patient's DNR order. D) A family decides against treating their mother's sepsis because of her low potential for recovery.