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tnt_battle · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

After a physician reprimanded a staff nurse for not reporting the patient's vital signs, the staff nurse began experiencing a severe migraine headache.

The staff nurse then asked the nurse manager if he could take a sick day and leave the unit. The staff nurse was coping with the physician's reprimand by:
a.
Displacement
b.
Denial
c.
Somatization
d.
Regression

Question 2

A staff nurse disagreed with the nurse manager's decision not to allow smoking breaks. The staff nurse then began discussing the decision with other members of the staff who smoked. The staff nurse escalated the conflict by:

a. Competition
b. Bickering
c. Constriction of others
d. Coalition formation

wfdfwc23 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 8, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: C
An individual may unconsciously convert an emotional conflict into physical symptoms (somatization), such as the common headache.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
Coalition formation gets other people involved and is a power strategy.