The nurse is assessing a patient with anxiety and observes the patient yelling and screaming. The nurse, integrating Peplau's theory, interprets this behavior as which of the following?
A) Panic behaviors
B) Relief behaviors
C) Empathetic linkage
D) Social distance
Question 2
A nurse is developing a presentation for a local community group of young and middle-aged adults about common psychosocial problems. Which of the following would be least appropriate for the nurse need to integrate into the presentation?
A) The age range for individuals in this category is from 18 to 65 years of age.
B) These categories are specific to Western culture secondary to a lengthened lifespan.
C) Longer periods of development for this group have become the norm throughout the world.
D) These categories apply primarily in the United States because of superior technologic advances.
Assessing for Phalen's Sign
The medical assistant often has to reassure and comfort the patient before effective communication c
A histologic slide showing the sponge-like architecture of a patient with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.
Hypothetical Exchanges of Information within the Brain of a Patient with Visual Agnosia
Gingival enlargement in a patient taking phenytoin.
Nurse measuring the recumbent height of a toddler