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RODY.ELKHALIL

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The nursing assistant remarks to the nurse, The patient with amnesia looks together, but when I talk to her, she seems rather vague. What should I be doing for her? The best reply would be:
 
  a. Provide more info about her past to reduce the unknowns that cause her anxiety..
  b. Use short, simple sentences and keep her environment calm and protective..
  c. Spend as much time with her as you can, and ask questions about her recent life..
  d. Structure her time with lots of activities to keep her busy and stimulated..

Question 2

A client is granted permission to watch a favorite television show in the evening because she participated in an occupational therapy activity. Her therapist bases this on ______ theory.
 
  a. Psychoanalytic
  b. Humanistic
  c. Behavioral
  d. Developmental



Andromeda18

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Answer to Question 1

B
Disruptions in ability to perform activities of daily living, confusion, and anxiety are often apparent in patients with amnesia. Offering simple directions to promote activities of daily living and reduce confusion helps increase feelings of safety and security. A calm, secure, predictable, protective environment is also helpful when a person is dealing with a great deal of uncertainty. Recollection of memories should proceed at its own pace, and the patient should only gradually be given information about her past. Asking questions that require recall that the patient does not possess will only add frustration. Quiet, undemanding activities should be provided as the patient tolerates them and should be balanced with rest periods; the patient's time should not be loaded with demanding or stimulating activities.

Answer to Question 2

C
Behavioral theory believes behavior is a result of rewards to enforce desired behaviors. Psychoanalytic theory explores the unconscious, humanistic theory deals with the whole person, not just behavior, and developmental theory focuses more on life tasks at particular points.



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