Answer to Question 1
Correct Answer: 4
Rationale 1: Intellectualization is a defense mechanism in which an uncomfortable or painful reality is evaded by using a rational explanation that removes personal significance from the event.
Rationale 2: Introjection is a form of identification in which the person adopts another person's norms or values, even if those norms or values are contrary to what the person would have previously assumed.
Rationale 3: Projection is blaming another person or the environment for one's own unacceptable thoughts, shortcomings, or failures.
Rationale 4: Minimization is not acknowledging the significance of a behavior.
Answer to Question 2
Correct Answer: 2
Rationale 1: Compensation is covering up weaknesses by emphasizing strength or by overachievement.
Rationale 2: Denial is an attempt to ignore unacceptable realities by refusing to acknowledge them.
Rationale 3: Displacement is transferring emotional reactions from one object or person to another object or person.
Rationale 4: Identification is an attempt to manage anxiety by imitating the behavior of someone feared or respected.
When using an interpreter, the nurse should pose questions directly to the patient, not the interpre
The nurse conducts the health history as the first step in the nursing assessment
A, A nurse is adding a medication to an IV line as a piggyback
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Nurse collaboration
Nurse palpating the patient's brachial artery