Author Question: The nurse reads the admission notes in the chart of a new patient. The admitting nurse mentions that ... (Read 53 times)

809779 · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

The nurse reads the admission notes in the chart of a new patient. The admitting nurse mentions that the patient uses humor as a defense mechanism. If this defense mechanism is used short term, how would its use be described?

A) Maladaptive
B) Predetermined
C) Patterns of conflict
D) Adaptive

Question 2

The nurse knows that as persons grow from childhood to adulthood, they respond to the realization that they are an autonomous being and therefore capable of controlling themselves. This realization forms what?

A) Patterns of thinking
B) Patterns of behavior
C) Secondary traits
D) Core traits