The nurse on the rehabilitation unit is caring for a client who recently suffered a brain attack. The nurse anticipates that the client will be prescribed antidepressants since clients who take them following a brain attack find that the drugs:
A) Help improve their seizures.
B) Do not do much for their symptoms.
C) Do not ease the depression, but improve their memory.
D) Ease the depression and cognitive impairment.
Question 2
Nurses who work with patients who have cognitive disorders know that the current trend in treatment is to:
A) Maintain the patients in their community as long as possible
B) Medicate the patients with high doses of antianxiety medications
C) Provide the patients with intensive occupational therapy
D) Make the patients responsible for their own actions and decisions
NUrse
Brain scans showing the white-matter pathways involved in everyday learning:
The tone of the nurse-patient introduction sets the stage for the patient interview and patient care
Illustration showing how the primary breast tumor metastasized through the lymphatic and blood vesse
Brain Dissection
Measuring the client’s height with a platform scale