Answer to Question 1
ANS: D
The patient's statements reflect the use of the ego defense mechanism denial. This mechanism may be unconsciously used to protect the person from the emotionally overwhelming reality of rape. The patient's statements do not reflect somatic symptoms, repression, or projection.
Answer to Question 2
ANS: D
Anxiety is the result of a personal threat to the victim's safety and security. In this case, the patient's symptoms of rapid, dissociated speech, confusion, and indecisiveness indicate severe anxiety. Weak is not a level of anxiety. Mild and moderate levels of anxiety allow the patient to function at a higher level.
Cellular section from the brain of a person who died from Alzheimer's disease.
Critical thinking involves analysis in which the nurse examines patient data available from a variet
The nurse is using Standard Precautions to draw blood.
Edward Bellamy, author of the utopian novel Looking Backward (1888) Bellamy’s socialism worried many
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Combustion analysis of 0.150 g of an unknown compound containing carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen ...