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After teaching a group of students about appraisal and the stress response, the instructor determines that additional teaching is needed when the students identify which of the following as part of the primary appraisal?
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Correct Answer: Outcome explanation
The nurse helps a client practice various techniques of assertive communication by giving positive feedback for improvement of passive-aggressive interactions. This intervention would occur in which phase of the nurse-client relationship?
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Correct Answer: Working phase.
While engaging in a discussion with a group of teens about risk behaviors, one of the teens says, 'That will never happen to me.' The nurse interprets this as which of the following?
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Correct Answer: Invincibility fable
Family members describe the patient as 'a difficult person who finds fault with others.' The patient verbally abuses nurses for their poor care. The most likely explanation lies in
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Correct Answer: a personality style that externalizes problems.
The nurse is interviewing a client admitted to an inpatient psychiatric unit with a diagnosis of depressive disorder. Which is the primary goal in the assessment phase of the nursing process for this client?
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Correct Answer: To collect and organize information.
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