The nurse is planning care for an individual diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. The nurse realizes that interventions will have to be focused on which of the following behaviors?
1. Desiring order and perfection
2. Not being able to make decisions
3. Acting out when feeling abandoned or disrespected
4. Withdrawing and becoming isolative
3
Rationale: Clients with borderline personality disorder often experience feelings of abandonment when left alone and may act out. Clients who are not able to make decisions may have dependent personality disorder. Clients who want order and perfection are often diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. Individuals with cluster A disorders will often withdraw and become isolative.
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a. An acute care hospital b. A rehabilitation hospital c. A nursing home d. A high school
The nurse intervenes for a patient with a perforation of the right eye by which of the following? (Place the interventions in the appropriate sequence.)
1. Cover the right eye with an eye shield. 2. Place the patient in a Fowler's position. 3. Clean around the right eye. 4. Cover the left eye with a light occlusive dressing. 5. Darken the room.
A community health nurse is designated as a "mandated reporter." Which of the following best describes this designation?
A) The nurse must witness abuse and neglect before being mandated to report. B) The nurse commands that battered women report the abuse. C) The supervising community health nurse is responsible for reporting only known cases of elder abuse. D) The nurse must report any case of known or suspected abuse and neglect in children or elders.
A nurse is being sued for malpractice. Which of the following specific elements must be present for the nurse to lose the case? (Select all that apply.)
______ Negligence ______ Damages ______ Injury ______ Malpractice ______ Causation ______ Foreseeability ______ Breach of duty ______ Duty