A comprehensive assessment of a new client reveals the likely ...

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A comprehensive assessment of a new client reveals the likely presence of several hostility-related variables. The term hostility-related variables refers to what?
 
  A) Consequences of aggressive and violent behavior
  B) Situations that cause the violence-prone person to react
  C) Societal endorsement of violence through entertainment content
  D) Emotions, attitudes, and behaviors found in aggressive individuals

Question 2

A nursing educator in a large, tertiary care hospital is teaching a group of nursing students about assessment techniques for differentiating between dementia and delirium. Which of the following statements about delirium is most accurate?
 
  A) A patient's risk of developing delirium is directly related to his or her coping ability.
  B) Delirium must be differentiated from dementia because the two disorders do not coexist.
  C) Inpatient treatment is often the trigger that initiates an individual's dementia.
  D) A majority of elderly patients experience some form of delirium during inpatient treatment.

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Answer to Question 1

Ans: D
Feedback:
Hostility-related variables are regular and predictable emotions, attitudes, and behaviors in humans confronted with frustrating circumstances, unfair application of rules, unjust practices, discrimination, shaming, or humiliation.

Answer to Question 2

Ans: D
Feedback:
Delirium is the most common psychiatric syndrome in general hospitals, occurring in as many as 54 of elderly inpatients. Individuals with dementia are not immune to delirium and neither problem is related to inadequate coping. Dementia is not caused by stressors such as hospital treatment, though such circumstances may exacerbate symptoms of preexisting dementia.