Author Question: The nurse works in a small clinic with two other nurses and a nurse practitioner. Recently the nurse ... (Read 94 times)

Wadzanai · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

The nurse works in a small clinic with two other nurses and a nurse practitioner. Recently the nurse has been staying at work longer than usual.

His neighbor, a patient at the clinic, asks one of the other employees at the clinic how the nurse is coping since his wife left him. The nurse had not shared this information with his co-workers. The nurse may be coping with his loss with which of the following? a. Compensation
b. Conversion
c. Denial
d. Dissociation

Question 2

The nurse is admitting a patient with a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection isolated in his stage III pressure ulcer. The nurse places the patient on:

a. contact precautions.
b. airborne precautions.
c. droplet precautions.
d. protective environment.

vickybb89 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 22, 2018

Answer to Question 1

C
Denial is avoiding emotional conflicts by refusing to consciously acknowledge anything that causes intolerable emotional pain. Compensation is making up for a deficiency in one aspect of self-image by strongly emphasizing a feature considered an asset. Conversion is unconsciously repressing an anxiety-producing emotional conflict and transforming it into nonorganic symptoms (e.g., difficulty sleeping, loss of appetite). Dissociation is experiencing a subjective sense of numbing and a reduced awareness of one's surroundings.

Answer to Question 2

A
Contact precautions (direct patient or environmental contact) is used for patients with colonization or infection with multidrug-resistant organisms such as VRE and MRSA, Clostridium difficile, shigella, and other enteric pathogens; major wound infections; herpes simplex; scabies; varicella zoster (disseminated); or respiratory syncytial virus in infants, young children, or immunocompromised adults. Airborne precautions (droplet nuclei smaller than 5 microns) are used for patients who have measles; chickenpox (varicella); disseminated varicella-zoster; pulmonary or laryngeal tuberculosis. Droplet precautions (droplets larger than 5 microns; being within 3 feet of the patient) is used for patients with diphtheria (pharyngeal), rubella, streptococcal pharyngitis, pneumonia or scarlet fever in infants and young children, pertussis, mumps, Mycoplasma pneumonia, meningococcal pneumonia or sepsis, or pneumonic plague. A protective environment is used to protect patients receiving allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplants.