Author Question: A 42-year-old male is brought to the emergency department by his brother. The brother tells the ... (Read 78 times)

Brittanyd9008 · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

A 42-year-old male is brought to the emergency department by his brother. The brother tells the nurse that the client has traveled across the country to attend the funerals of their parents who died in a car accident a week ago.

The brother tells the nurse that the client claims to be someone he is not but otherwise seems quite normal. What would the nurse suspect that this client has?
A) Dissociative amnesia
B) Dissociative identity disorder
C) Depersonalization disorder
D) Dissociative Fugue

Question 2

A female client, aged 27, is being seen at the clinic. The client describes her symptoms as auditory hallucinations, memory gaps, and sudden breaks in the continuity of her thought process.

The nurse recognizes that the client is describing symptoms for what dissociative disorder?
A) Dissociative amnesia
B) Dissociative identity disorder
C) Depersonalization disorder
D) Dissociative fugue