What factors are known to influence coping strategies? (Select all that apply.)
a. Age
b. Financial status
c. Role expectations
d. Personal values
e. Cultural expectations
A, C, D, E
Financial status is not a basic part of building coping strategies. All the other options, however, play integral parts in the patient's ability to cope or design new coping strategies or both.
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1. Within 48 hours of discharge 2. When the infant is one month old 3. Within two weeks of discharge 4. Within one week of discharge
It is important for the researcher to identify extraneous variables so that
a. All of the extraneous variables can be manipulated by the researcher. b. The findings can be explained as clearly and truthfully as possible. c. The research results are not critiqued unfairly. d. The extraneous variables have no influence on the dependent variable.
The highest priority for assessment by nurses caring for older adults who self-administer medications is:
a. use of multiple drugs with anticholinergic effects. b. overuse of medications for erectile dysfunction. c. missed doses of medications for arthritis. d. trading medications with acquaintances.
A patient with a pneumothorax has a chest tube inserted and is placed on low constant suction. Which finding requires immediate action by the nurse?
a. The patient reports pain at the chest tube insertion site that increases with movement. b. Fifty milliliters of blood gushes into the drainage device after the patient coughs. c. No bubbling is present in the suction control chamber of the drainage device. d. Yellow purulent discharge is seen leaking out from around the dressing site.