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Jay, a nurse on the medical-surgical unit, has been caring for a patient with chronic renal failure, congestive heart failure, and a history of myocardial infarctions. The client has been extremely irritable with the nursing staff.
 
  After working with the client for 4 days trying various strategies to help the client work through his anger, Jay asks to have another assignment when he comes back to work in 2 days. This depicts ____. a. Active coping strategies
  b. Active cognitive appraisal
  c. Inactive cognitive appraisal
  d. Inactive coping strategies

Question 2

Which of the following is fear-driven based on the appraisal of threats to health and individual coping mechanisms that move an individual toward adopting a health behavior?
 
  a. Consumer Information Processing Model
  b. Protection Motivation Theory
  c. Theory of Planned Behavior
  d. Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change



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Answer to Question 1

D
Inactive coping strategies focus on avoiding the stress because the nurse in this scenario is choosing to avoid caring for the client when returning to work. Active coping strategies work toward the stress. Active cognitive appraisal and inactive cognitive appraisal are distracters. Cognitive appraisal is the individual's assessment of the stressor.

Answer to Question 2

B





 

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