The outcome of crisis intervention therapy that should be identified for a patient who has been apathetic, fatigued, and feeling helpless since the recent birth of her baby is that she will:
a. experience reduced anxiety.
b. undergo personality change.
c. identify the need for a support system.
d. return to the precrisis level of functioning.
Question 2
James Taylor, a 22-year-old psychiatric patient with schizophrenia, is refusing his antipsychotic medication. He states, I don't like the dopey way it makes me feel. I feel like I'm walking under water when I take it.
The nurse explains to him, Your schizophrenia is caused by a chemical imbalance in your brain, and this medication helps fix that chemical imbalance. You need to take it so your symptoms will get better. This conversation between a patient and a nurse is an example of a conflict between which two types of ethical principles?
A) Autonomy and justice
B) Paternalism and veracity
C) Justice and nonmaleficence
D) Autonomy and beneficence
Positioning the Patient in the Fowler’s Position
Patient Education Follow-up Plan
Conditions Treated by Physical Therapy
Kaposi's sarcoma on the skin of an AIDS patient.
Jaundice seen in the eyes and the skin of a patient with hepatitis A.