Most psychosomatic problems and somatoform disorders begin in:
a. Puberty
b. Adulthood
c. Childhood
d. Adolescence
C
How an individual perceives and responds to stress is established in childhood.
You might also like to view...
A student nurse asks why several clients are getting more than one type of pain medication instead of very high doses of one medication. What response by the registered nurse is best?
a. "A multimodal approach is the preferred method of control." b. "Doctors are much more liberal with pain medications now." c. "Pain is so complex it takes different approaches to control it." d. "Clients are consumers and they demand lots of pain medicine."
A client is experiencing respiratory distress and mild shock. In which position should the nurse place the client?
a. Prone b. Head elevated c. Trendelenburg position d. Flat with elevated foot of bed
After receiving spinal anesthesia, the patient may not be able to move his legs for a period of time.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
A nurse is reviewing a study comparing a new alcohol screening instrument to an existing instrument in predicting patients' withdrawal symptoms during hospital admissions
The nurse notes that the confidence interval of the study includes a relative risk (RR) of 1 . What are the implications of this fact? A) The screening instruments are unable to predict patients' risks for alcohol withdrawal. B) Using the new instrument will result in more unanticipated cases of withdrawal. C) The new instrument is a modest improvement on the existing instrument. D) The new instrument may be no better than the existing one in predicting withdrawal.