Author Question: A smiling patient angrily states, I will not cough and deep breathe. How will the nurse interpret ... (Read 137 times)

notis · **on:** Jul 23, 2018

A smiling patient angrily states, I will not cough and deep breathe. How will the nurse interpret this finding?

a. The patient's personal space was violated.
b. The patient's affect is inappropriate.
c. The patient's vocabulary is poor.
d. The patient's denotative meaning is wrong.

Question 2

A nurse is standing beside the patient's bed. Nurse: How are you doing? Patient: I don't feel good. In this situation, which element is the feedback?

a. Nurse
b. Patient
c. How are you doing?
d. I don't feel good.

trampas · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 23, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: B
An inappropriate affect is a facial expression that does not match the content of a verbal message (e.g., smiling when describing a sad situation). The patient is smiling but is angry, which indicates an inappropriate affect. The patient's personal space was not violated. The patient's vocabulary is not poor. Individuals who use a common language share denotative meaning: baseball has the same meaning for everyone who speaks English, but code denotes cardiac arrest primarily to health care providers. The patient's denotative meaning is correct for cough and deep breathe.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
I don't feel good is the feedback because the feedback is the message the receiver returns. The sender is the person who encodes and delivers the message, and the receiver is the person who receives and decodes the message. The nurse is the sender. The patient is the receiver. How are you doing? is the message.