Author Question: A client has spastic lower limbs and bouts of severe pain. A nursing intervention useful for helping ... (Read 56 times)

Cooldude101 · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

A client has spastic lower limbs and bouts of severe pain. A nursing intervention useful for helping
the client learn to manage the pain would be

a. teaching relaxation techniques.
b. using cognitive behavior therapy.
c. performing a holistic lifestyle assessment.
d. obtaining an overall quality-of-life assessment.

Question 2

A client tells the nurse I've always been a religious person and I'm going to combat stress by
spending more time in prayer each day.. The nursing diagnosis that the nurse should consider
establishing is

a. spiritual distress.
b. disturbed thought processes.
c. readiness for enhanced spiritual well-being.
d. ineffective therapeutic regimen management.

BAOCHAU2803 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 19, 2018

Answer to Question 1

A
Relaxation techniques can be helpful in diminishing pain perception and reactions to pain. Option B:
Cognitive behavior therapy may be useful to the client but would not be a nursing intervention that
can be independently initiated by a basic level nurse. Options C and D refer to assessments rather
than intervention.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: C
This nursing diagnosis is defined as ability to experience and integrate meaning and purpose in life
through connectedness with self, others, art, music, literature, nature, or a power greater than self.
The scenario provides no data to support the diagnoses in the other options.