Author Question: Patients who unconsciously refuse to accept a situation as it truly is display: A) Confabulation ... (Read 79 times)

bobbysung · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

Patients who unconsciously refuse to accept a situation as it truly is display:

A) Confabulation
B) Lying
C) Denial
D) Identification

Question 2

You are one of the nurses monitoring the dining room during dinner. A male patient who has schizophrenia asks a table mate to please pass the pepper. When the table mate does so, the first patient throws the pepper shaker at you.

He or she screams, Now look what you've done There are spiders all over my food I can't eat this Get the spiders out of there Your best response is:
A) Those aren't spiders; that is the pepper you asked for
B) I don't see any spiders. Let's go to the game room for a little while before you try eating again.
C) Where are the spiders? I am also afraid of them
D) It is inappropriate to throw things; you need to go to the locked unit now.