A patient is scheduled for major surgery tomorrow morning. You ask the patient if he or she has any questions about the surgery. The patient says "no" and then proceeds to tell you about the activity in the stock market that day
You believe that this patient is displaying:
A) Denial
B) Transference
C) Regression
D) Splitting
A
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A nurse in the outpatient clinic notes that a patient has been treated for syphilis three separate times in the past 2 years. What should the antibiotic treatment for this patient consist of this time?
a. Penicillin G b. Penicillin G today and a follow-up with another injection in 1 month c. Penicillin G today and 3 months of oral tetracycline antibiotic medications d. Penicillin G today and a 2-month protocol of oral antiviral agents
The nurse is admitting a patient for laser photocoagulation treatment of diabetic retinopathy. The nurse would immediately contact the health care provider if the patient's diastolic blood pressure is above _______ mmHg
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The nurse is going to perform range of motion exercises on a patient. Which of the following is incorrect for the nurse to do?
a. Start at the patient's foot and move to the head. b. The head should be rotated 1/4 turn from side to side and then flexed and extended. c. The arms should be flexed and extended and adducted and abducted. d. Do not flex, extend, rotate, abduct, or adduct a joint if the patient complains of discomfort.
Which of the following best describes the connection between ethics and health care financing?
a. Health care financing is an outcome of social morality and collective beliefs about distribution of health care services in terms of good versus bad, right versus wrong, and harm versus benefit. b. Codes of ethics mandate that professionals in each discipline contribute to society through participation in health care policy. c. Health care professionals' duties center on the individual patient, and health care financing directly impacts each person's ability to receive care. d. Health care financing rests upon the ethical principles of distributive justice, beneficence, and nonmaleficence.