Author Question: A client living in a beachfront community is seeking help with an extreme fear of bridges, which is ... (Read 59 times)

leo leo · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

A client living in a beachfront community is seeking help with an extreme fear of bridges, which is interfering with daily functioning. A psychiatric nurse practitioner decides to try systematic desensitization.

Which explanation of this treatment should the nurse provide? 1. Using your imagination, we will attempt to achieve a state of relaxation.
2. Because anxiety and relaxation are mutually exclusive states, we can attempt to substitute a relaxation response for the anxiety response.
3. Through a series of increasingly anxiety-provoking steps, we will gradually increase your tolerance to anxiety.
4. In one intense session, you will be exposed to a maximum level of anxiety that you will learn to tolerate.

Question 2

Which is an example of an intentional tort?

1. A nurse fails to assess a client's obvious symptoms of neuroleptic malignant syndrome.
2. A nurse physically places an irritating client in four-point restraints.
3. A nurse makes a medication error and does not report the incident.
4. A nurse gives patient information to an unauthorized person.

pangili4 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 19, 2018

Answer to Question 1

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Rationale: The nurse should explain to the client that when participating in systematic desensitization he or she will go through a series of increasingly anxiety-provoking steps that will gradually increase tolerance. Systematic desensitization was introduced by Joseph Wolpe in 1958 and is based on behavioral conditioning principles.

Answer to Question 2

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Rationale: A tort, which can be intentional or unintentional, is a violation of civil law in which an individual has been wronged. A nurse who intentionally physically places an irritating client in restraints has touched the client without consent and has committed an intentional tort.