A nurse is spending time with a patient, who has recently been ...

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A nurse is spending time with a patient, who has recently been diagnosed with breast cancer. The patient states that he or she is frightened about the diagnosis and feels overwhelmed.
 
  The nurse responds, It sounds to me like you are feeling very scared right now. Which communication technique did the nurse use? a. Sympathy
  b. Empathy
  c. Focusing
  d. Self-disclosure

Question 2

A postoperative patient is receiving morphine sulfate from a patient-controlled analgesia device. On assessment, the nurse notes that the patient's respirations are depressed.
 
  The nurse realizes the effect of morphine sulfate infusion can be labeled as which of the following? a. Toxic
  b. Allergic
  c. Therapeutic
  d. Idiosyncratic

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Answer to Question 1

B
Empathy is the ability to understand and accept another person's perspective. Although no one can ever totally know another's experiences, a nurse can try to understand what the person is ex-periencing. Focusing directs conversation to a specific topic or issue when a discussion becomes unclear. Self-disclosures are personal statements intentionally revealed to the other person. Sympathy is the concern, sorrow, or pity that you feel for a patient when you personally identify with his or her needs. Unlike empathy, which tries to understand a patient's experience, sympa-thy takes a subjective look at the patient's world (Oh, I know just what you mean. I hate feeling that way.).

Answer to Question 2

A
Toxic effects are capable of causing injury or death. They often develop after prolonged intake of a medication or when a medication accumulates in the blood because of impaired metabolism or excretion. When patients become immunologically sensitized to a medication after taking at least one dose, allergic reactions occur. When a patient's immune system causes abnormal reactions to a medication, the patient has a medication allergy. Each medication has a therapeutic effect, the intended or desired physiological response of a medication. Some medications cause unpredicta-ble effects, such as idiosyncratic reactions, in which a patient overreacts or underreacts to a me-dication or has a reaction different from what is expected.