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Bernana

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What is the best test to identify the risk of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women?
 
  a. Skeletal x-ray
  b. Bone density scan
  c. Calcium blood level
  d. CAT scan

Question 2

A 40-year-old patient cries and has a tantrum when the physician refuses to give her a prescription for diet pills. The nurse realizes that this is the use of which defense mechanism?
 
  a. Compensation
  b. Denial
  c. Regression
  d. Repression


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Reply #1 on: Jul 23, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: B
Bone density testing can identify women at risk for fractures.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: C
Regression is a behavior that reflects the return to an earlier form of coping.


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Reply #2 on: Jul 23, 2018
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