Answer to Question 1
B
Disruptions in ability to perform activities of daily living, confusion, and anxiety are often apparent in patients with amnesia. Offering simple directions to promote activities of daily living and reduce confusion helps increase feelings of safety and security. A calm, secure, predictable, protective environment is also helpful when a person is dealing with a great deal of uncertainty. Recollection of memories should proceed at its own pace, and the patient should only gradually be given information about her past. Asking questions that require recall that the patient does not possess will only add frustration. Quiet, undemanding activities should be provided as the patient tolerates them and should be balanced with rest periods; the patient's time should not be loaded with demanding or stimulating activities.
Answer to Question 2
C
Behavioral theory believes behavior is a result of rewards to enforce desired behaviors. Psychoanalytic theory explores the unconscious, humanistic theory deals with the whole person, not just behavior, and developmental theory focuses more on life tasks at particular points.
A nurse communicates with her non–English-speaking patient through an interpreter
Nursing history for nail assessment
An example of a medical history sheet to list patient problems.
Patient Teaching Methods Cont.
A patient’s cognitive ability depends on his or her psychologic status, which is influenced by ...
Common patient positions.