The nurse knows that planning for recovery can begin:
1. At discharge.
2. Once the client expresses a need for greater autonomy.
3. At admission.
4. With an inflexible treatment team.
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Rationale: Once clients express a need for greater autonomy, planning for recovery can begin. All involved parties must be flexible to the changing circumstances of stress and illness, triggers and relapse, barriers and overcoming them. Recovery is an individualized state defined by each client. It cannot be imposed from without; recovery must be achieved from within.
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A) True B) False
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A) Control fever B) Dehydrate the brain and reduce cerebral edema C) Help reduce edema surrounding brain tumors D) Reduce cellular metabolic demands
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a. Aesthetics b. Ethics c. Epistemology d. Logic
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