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Jkov05 · **on:** Jun 25, 2018

A client comes to the Emergency Department with chest pain and difficulty breathing. The nurse concludes that the client is in which stage of acute illness behavior?

1. Assuming a dependent role
2. Seeking medical attention
3. Feeling out of sorts
4. Seeking rehabilitation

Question 2

A client is asking the nurse when recovery from an acute illness will occur. The best response by the nurse would be:

1. Recovery is individual, and does not follow a timetable.
2. You will recover in one week.
3. This disease will probably develop into a chronic condition.
4. You should have recovered by now.

tennis14576 · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 25, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Answer: 2

1. Assuming the dependent role is stage 4, when the client accepts the illness.
2. Stage 3 involves the client's seeking medical attention.
3. Stage 1 is when the client feels out of sorts.
4. The client seeks rehabilitation in the final stage 5.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: 1

1. Recovery is individual, and depends on compliance of the client, severity of the illness, and the method of treatment.
2. Since recovery is always individual, the nurse does not give the client a time frame.
3. Telling the client that the disease could become chronic is not within nursing's scope of practice.
4. It is not wise to tell a client that recovery already should have occurred, because recovery is individual, and part of recovery includes the client's mental state.