You are developing a care plan for a client diagnosed with dissociative amnesia. What nursing diagnosis would you be sure to include in this client's plan of care?
A) Sensory perceptual alteration, related to depersonalization and view of self
B) Self-care deficit, related to mechanical trance-like state or aimless wandering
C) Altered thought processes, related to memory loss and repressed trauma
D) Ineffective individual coping, related to travel away from home
Question 2
A nurse working in a small rural hospital is on duty when a fire breaks out in the local movie theater.
The hospital emergency department is used to triage and stabilize many of the townspeople before having them transported to trauma centers and burn units in neighboring cities. Shortly after the last client is transported, the nurse asks one of the physicians what happened to all the townspeople. She tells the physician that she remembers the hospital was notified of a fire in the movie theater and she remembered receiving four clients into the emergency department who had been injured in the fire, but she thought there should have been many more clients admitted. This nurse was exhibiting signs and symptoms of what?
A) Localized amnesia
B) Selective amnesia
C) Generalized amnesia
D) Continuous amnesia
The patient and his family meet with the nurse to discuss progress on the patient care plan.
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