A client with schizophrenia is being quiet and isolative. The nurse tries to engage the client as an intervention to promote appropriate social interaction.
The nurse sits by the client for a few minutes and then asks the client, What's the matter, cat got your tongue? In this situation, the stereotypical comment is: A) Not therapeutic. B) Sexually suggestive.
C) Therapeutic. D) Intellectually stimulating.
Question 2
Nurses are aware that people who abuse alcohol and drugs
A) Are of low-socioeconomic groups
B) Use only the drug of their choice
C) Use more than one drug and are often also alcoholic
D) Are all alcoholics before they begin using other drugs
Critical thinking involves analysis in which the nurse examines patient data available from a variet
The nurse conducts the health history as the first step in the nursing assessment
The nurse uses a noninvasive bladder ultrasound to measure the client’s bladder volume.
Nurse examining and measuring hematuria sample from client with a UTI
To check pupillary reflexes the nurse first holds the penlight
Apply the substance to the client’s posterior leg with one smooth stroke. To stabilize the ...