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abern

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A patient with an abdominal mass is scheduled for a biopsy. The patient has difficulty understanding the nurse's comments and asks, What do you mean? What are they going to do? Assessment findings include tremulous voice, respirations 28, and pulse 110.
 
  What is the patient's level of anxiety?
 
  a. Mild
  b. Moderate
  c. Severe
  d. Panic

Question 2

A patient undergoing diagnostic tests says, Nothing is wrong with me except a stubborn chest cold. The spouse reports the patient smokes, coughs daily, lost 15 pounds, and is easily fatigued. Which defense mechanism is the patient using?
 
  a. Displacement
  b. Regression
  c. Projection
  d. Denial


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juwms

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Reply #1 on: Jul 19, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: B
Moderate anxiety causes the individual to grasp less information and reduces problem-solving ability to a less-than-optimal level. Mild anxiety heightens attention and enhances problem solving. Severe anxiety causes great reduction in the perceptual field. Panic-level anxiety results in disorganized behavior.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
Denial is an unconscious blocking of threatening or painful information or feelings. Regression involves using behaviors appropriate at an earlier stage of psychosexual development. Displacement shifts feelings to a more neutral person or object. Projection attributes one's own unacceptable thoughts or feelings to another.


abern

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Reply 2 on: Jul 19, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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Excellent

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