The nurse initiates the first step in helping patients to increase adaptability, which is to:
1. assess past methods of coping with stress.
2. suggest using past coping strategies.
3. determine external coping strategies.
4. determine what the patient perceives as stressful.
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Nurses can help patients deal with stress by identifying the patient's usual methods of cop-ing or adapting.
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a. Pure silver c. Mafenide acetate cream b. Bacitracin d. Silver sulfadiazine
The nurse is taking a health history for a 9-year-old girl. Which of the following findings would alert the nurse that the child is at risk for visual impairment?
A) Being born at 39 weeks B) Doing several hours of homework daily C) Being of African-American heritage D) Participating actively in sports
In an attempt to be sensitive to varying cultural responses to touch, before shaking a patient's hand, the nurse will
a. offer the patient his or her upturned palm. b. wait until the patient extends his or her hand. c. establish eye contact with the patient first. d. address the patient by his or her full name.
Parents of a child who is exhibiting obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) may notice the child:
A) Is failing classes due to a lack of concentration. B) Spending excessive amount of time in their room. C) Frequently "stares off into space." D) Is jittery and nervous all the time.