A new nurse who will be assessing a client who is receiving ECT asks her mentor, What sort of memory impairment is present after several ECT treatments? The best response for the mentor would be:
1. It's hard to say. Treatment affects everyone differently.
2. Usually the client has severe difficulty remembering remote events.
3. Clients have mild difficulty remembering recent events like what was eaten for breakfast.
4. Both recent and remote memory is affected, producing profound confusional states.
Question 2
About an hour after the client has ECT, he complains of having a headache. The nurse should:
1. Notify the physician stat
2. Administer a prn dose of acetaminophen
3. Take the client through a progressive relaxation sequence
4. Advise going to activities to expend energy and relieve tension
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Memory card
A Memory Task for Intelligence Testing
Major Categories of Long-Term Memory
The nurse conveys attentive listening through a posture of involvement
Memory Analogy