A client's teenaged son recently committed suicide. She discovered her son's body and subsequently received a diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder
The client was then admitted to an inpatient psychiatric unit for evaluation and medication stabilization. Which nursing statement reflects the therapeutic technique of "formulating a plan of action?"
A) "The day you discovered your son's body, you were arriving home from work. What happened then?"
B) "Tell me about it."
C) "I notice you seem uncomfortable discussing this."
D) "What is it that you would like to see change during your stay here?"
D
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A) Patchy infiltrate on chest x-ray B) Pulmonary capillary wedge pressure less than 18 C) Increasing tachypnea and air hunger D) Low plasma brain natriuretic peptide (BNP)
Asthma is a chronic illness and requires life-long management by patients and clinicians to achieve the goals of therapy. The signs and symptoms of this disease are primarily attributable to what pathophysiological process?
A) Acute inflammation of the patient's hyperresponsive airway B) Hypersecretion of mucus by goblet cells in the upper airway C) Misinterpretation of chemoreceptor signals by the pons and medulla D) Autoimmune destruction of the mucosa in the patient's upper airway
A nurse is making a home visit to a patient just discharged from the hospital. The patient states, "I've just started taking clonidine (Catapres), but it's making me so drowsy
" Select the nurse's most appropriate response to the patient regarding this concern. a. "Discontinue the medication, and contact your prescriber." b. "Are you taking this medication for pain or high blood pressure?" c. "Drowsiness is very common early in therapy, but the effects will lessen with time." d. "Are you having any blurred vision?"
Which of the following drugs used to treat Alzheimer's disease is not an anticholinergic?
1. Donepezil 2. Memantine 3. Rivastigmine 4. Galantamine