The nurse recognizes that a client's sense of personal control is ...

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The nurse recognizes that a client's sense of personal control is most therapeutically impacted when:
 
  1. The client attends a self-help/support group
  2. The nurse encourages the client to make menu selections
  3. The client views a video on the use of a personal glucose monitor
  4. The nurse provides instructions on a patient-controlled analgesic (PCA) pump

Question 2

When meeting for the first time, the home health nurse smiles warmly and shakes the client's hand. The nurse-client relationship is in the:
 
  1. Working phase
  2. Orientation phase
  3. Termination phase
  4. Preinteraction phase

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Answer to Question 1

ANS: 4
Personal control over the situation contributes to emotional comfort. Pain control is a very basic need, and by providing the client with the power to control that pain, the need has been thera-peutic. The remaining options contribute to personal control but not on the same elemental level as pain control.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: 2
When the nurse and client meet and get to know one another, they are engaged in the orientation phase of the nurse-client relationship. The remaining options are phases that occur either before or after the orientation phase.