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The home health nurse assesses a patient who creates elaborate excuses for not leaving home. Further questioning reveals the patient had not left home for 6 months. The nurse documents these findings as:
 
  a. mania.
  b. depression.
  c. agoraphobia.
  d. anxiety.

Question 2

When assessing a patient, the nurse notes that the patient has an unnatural paleness of color to the skin. The nurse should document this finding as:
 
  a. skin pallor.
  b. pruritus.
  c. sallow skin.
  d. jaundice.


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Reply #1 on: Jul 11, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Agoraphobia is a high level of anxiety in which an anxiety attack could occur in individuals who avoid other people, places, or events.

Answer to Question 2

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Pallor is an unnatural paleness or absence of color in the skin; it may result from a decrease in hemoglobin and erythrocytes.


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Reply #2 on: Jul 11, 2018
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