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schs14

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on: Jul 19, 2018
Which of the following would be the most therapeutic student nurse response to the client's question, Hi. What is your name?
 
  A) My name is Dorothy, and I am a student nurse at Oakdale University School of Nursing.
  B) Why do you ask?
  C) It is interesting that you would ask about my name. What is your name?
  D) I would like to tell you; however, it is against the policy at Oakdale Hospital to reveal personal information.

Question 2

On the first day of a psychiatric-mental health nursing clinical, a student nurse is assigned to work with a 24-year-old male client who is being treated for major depression due to a recent diagnosis of AIDS.
 
  Which of the following questions of the nurse would reflect prejudice regarding the client?
 
  A) Does depression often occur when young people get a diagnosis of AIDS?
  B) What is the physiological reason that depression might happen in conjunction with this diagnosis?
  C) Does the client's family know he is depressed and in treatment? I haven't seen any visitors since he was admitted.
  D) Why do gay men seem to get depressed more often? Could it be related to IV drug abuse?


Sophiapenny

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Reply #1 on: Jul 19, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Ans: A
There are clinical situations in which it is unadvisable to provide personal information about oneself. However, other situations merit the cautious sharing of personal information; this is one. Providing her name gives the student credibility and establishes trust. To withhold this type of information would make the client uncomfortable and possibly suspicious of the student.

Answer to Question 2

Ans: D
Prejudice is a judgment or opinion (preconceived notion) that has been made or formed before any knowledge or facts have been gathered. In option D, the student has already assumed that because the client has AIDS, he is gay and also may use IV drugs, and therefore, the student's question reflects prejudice. Asking a question regarding the development of depression following a diagnosis of AIDS in young people, investigating the physiologic reason for depression occurring in a client diagnosed with AIDS, and determining if the client's family has knowledge of the depression are all relevant questions posed by the student nurse.


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