During the morning of surgery, a client will be transported to the holding area where:
a. her family is not allowed to enter.
b. the anesthetist usually starts the IV infusion and administers the preoperative medication.
c. access is considered to be restricted.
d. minor surgery is performed.
ANS: B
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The nurse explains that clients with narcolepsy often also experience cataplexy, which is a/an
a. inability to move for several minutes on awakening. b. seizure-like episode with tonic and clonic movements. c. sudden loss of muscle tone that lasts for several minutes. d. trance-like period of 5 minutes or more.
At the time of discharge, a patient with a European-American worldview demands copies of all medical records. Which analysis most accurately explains the patient's behavior? The patient
a. continues to experience mistrust of the team's truthfulness. b. is probably planning to see an attorney about poor care. c. values the written evidence of illness and treatment. d. probably wants to edit the records for accuracy.
The three measureable outputs for the coping processes consist of the cognitive, behavioral and affective responses
A. True B. False
The nurse is counseling a young couple who in 2 months are having their third baby. The nurse uses Von Bertalanffy's general system theory applied to families to analyze the family structure
Which best describes the main emphasis of this theory and its application to family dynamics? A) It emphasizes the family as a system with interdependent, interacting parts that endure over time to ensure the survival, continuity, and growth of its components. B) It emphasizes the social system of family, such as the organization or structure of the family and how the structure relates to the function. C) It emphasizes the developmental stages that all families go through, beginning with marriage; the longitudinal career of the family is also known as the family life cycle. D) It addresses the way families respond to stress and how the family copes with the stress as a group and how each individual member copes.