The admitting note describes a client with depression as having anergia and anhedonia. The nurse
should plan measures to (more than one answer may be correct)
A. channel excessive energy.
B. reduce guilty ruminations.
C. accommodate psychomotor retardation.
D. instill a sense of hopefulness.
Question 2
A client with bipolar disorder tells the nurse I am so ashamed of being bipolar. When I'm manic my
behavior is so bizarre that it embarrasses my family.
Even when I take my medication every day, it's
no guarantee that I will not have a relapse. I am like a stone around my wife's neck, dragging the
family down.. These statements support the nursing diagnoses of
a. defensive coping and ineffective denial.
b. chronic low self-esteem and powerlessness.
c. impaired social interaction and social isolation.
d. impaired adjustment and parental role conflict.
The grey nurse shark is critically endangered on the Australian east coast.
A nurse communicates with her non–English-speaking patient through an interpreter
Greet a First-Time Client With a Firm Handshake.
Client’s view with visual field loss
depression