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
The nurse needs to note the source of the patient health history
Polycystic kidney disease. Notice the presence of numerous fluid-filled sacs, or cysts, in these kid
Calcium Salts and Vitamin D Therapy
Amyloid plaques (stained blue) in the brain of a deceased patient who had Alzheimer’s disease.
Intervention for Troubled Teens