Answer to Question 1
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Staying with the patient increases feelings of security, reduces anxiety, offers the opportunity for reinforcing reality, and provides a measure of physical safety. Brightening the lights allows the patient to reassess reality and enables her to question whether her experience was real or mistaken. Also, if she can see that no insects are present despite her sensations, she will likely experience a reduction in anxiety. When hallucinations are present, the nurse should acknowledge the patient's feelings and state the nurse's perception of reality but not refute the patient's experience. Your imagination is playing tricks on you does not meet these guidelines for intervention and does not support the patient emotionally. Directing the patient to relax sets up an unrealistic expectation, given what she perceives is happening. Indicating that someone will brush the bugs away suggests that the patient's perceptions are based in reality and reinforces the hallucinatory experience.
Answer to Question 2
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Threats to body image occur with surgery, extensive diagnostic procedures, and acute and chronic illness.
An emergency medical technician positions defibrillator paddles on the chest of a supine male patien
Effective listening skills demonstrate empathy to the patient and break down barriers to communicati
A hearing-impaired patient using an interpreter.
Patient health history form Cont.
Anatomy of the heart. Remember: It is labeled right and left based on the patient’s perspective.