A client with adult ADHD reflects I make a lot of careless ...

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A client with adult ADHD reflects I make a lot of careless mistakes at work and I have a lot of
  trouble staying 'on task.' Sometimes I cannot seem to tune in to what others are telling me. My
  thoughts seem to drift and I do not connect facts.
 
  When it comes to organizing, I have a bad time
  putting things in the right order.. The physician tells the nurse that she believes medication will help
  the client. The nurse should expect to provide health teaching about a class of drugs known as
  a. benzodiazepines.
  b. psychostimulants.
  c. neuroleptics.
  d. anxiolytics.

Question 2

Which situation is least likely to place severe, disabling stress on a family? The
 
  a. need for long-term care for a man with a wife and two teenage sons who sustains
  severe brain injury.
  b. divorce of the parents of three children, aged 10, 8, and 2 years.
  c. death of a mother who leaves a husband and three sons younger than 12 years.
  d. family in which the son leaves for college and the father retires.

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Answer to Question 1

B
Psychostimulants such as methylphenidate and amphetamines provide the basis for treatment of both
adult and childhood ADHD. They are the most commonly used medications, so the nurse could
expect the physician would order a drug in this class. None of the other drugs given as options have
proven useful in the treatment of ADHD.

Answer to Question 2

D
Family stress is greatest when an interruption or dislocation occurs in the unfolding of the family life
cycle. Options A, B, and C are such dislocations. The situation described in option D may be fraught
with stress but the changes are not interruptions; they are to be expected.

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