If a penny-pinching patient rationalizes personal behavior, a ...

[genevieve1028]

If a penny-pinching patient rationalizes personal behavior, a nurse will expect that the patient is most likely to:
 
  a. call other people wasteful.
  b. start spending money liberally.
  c. claim to exemplify the virtue of thrift.
  d. give vast amounts of money to charity on death.

Question 2

A group of nursing students is reviewing information about the differences that occur with grieving in children, adolescents, and adults.
 
  The students demonstrate understanding of this information when they identify which of the following as characteristic of adolescents?
  A) View death as reversible
  B) Mourn by talking about the loss
  C) Need repeated explanations to understand the loss
  D) Express a time limit for socially acceptable grieving

[Alyson.hiatt@yahoo.com]

Answer to Question 1

C
Rationalization is the offering of a socially acceptable or apparently logical reason as a justification for an unacceptable impulse, feeling, behavior, or motive.

Answer to Question 2

B

[genevieve1028]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

[bblaney]

Excellent