A client has been treated with medication and psychotherapy for generalized anxiety disorder. Discharge from treatment is being contemplated. To obtain an objective measure of treatment success, the nurse will:
1. Elicit information about client satisfaction with treatment
2. Ask the client whether he is experiencing anxiety at or below the mild level
3. Administer the Hamilton Anxiety Scale
4. Use the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale
Question 2
The client was an awkward child who was ridiculed by his father for his inability to catch a ball.
As an adult, the client developed panic attacks at the time his company established after-work team sporting activities. The advanced practice nurse determines that the client's anxiety occurs in relation to:
1. A signal that predicts a feared event
2. His physiologic responses to sports
3. A genetic deficiency of neurotransmitters
4. An unresolved desire to be a baseball player
B, The nurse teaches the postoperative client to use an incentive spirometer to expand the lungs.
Obsessive–compulsive disorder.
medication administration
Anti-Anxiety Drugs Used in the Dental Office
Greet a First-Time Client With a Firm Handshake.
Intervention Model-Response to Client Misconduct