A teenaged new mother reports she has felt apathetic, fatigued, and helpless since giving birth. She states, I don't know what's expected of me.. The nurse believes the patient will benefit from:
a. crisis intervention.
b. short hospitalization.
c. neuroleptic medication.
d. antidepressant medication.
Question 2
One way in which a psychiatric nurse can meet the challenge of knowledge development is to:
A) Access new information through continuing education programs.
B) Improve access to community psychiatric care for all populations.
C) Reduce the burden of mental illness by fighting stigma.
D) Provide culturally competent, high-quality nursing care.
A juvenile blue whale with its mother
Concept of Birth by Children
Treating the breast-feeding mother
Compared to a chimpanzee, the human newborn has relatively little room to spare as it passes through
Georges Seurat, The Artist's Mother.
Preterm birth rates, by single and multiple births, Canada