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Why is it important for the nurse to be observant of patient behavior?
- A. Behavior is preformed.
- B. Behavior is important.
- C. Behavior is learned.
- D. Behavior is repeated.
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Behavior is learned and has meaning.
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A 40-year-old patient cries and has a tantrum when the health care provider 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
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Regression is a behavior that reflects the return to an earlier form of coping.
What action consistently done by a patient should indicate to a nurse that the patient has a poor self-concept?
- A. Wears bright-colored clothing.
- B. Demands the attention of staff.
- C. Apologizes to others repeatedly.
- D. Becomes angry when frustrated.
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Apologizing repeatedly is indicative of self-effacement. Anger, demanding attention, and wearing attention-getting clothing are not characteristics of a poor self-concept.
The patient complains to the nurse that the health care provider does not like him and wants him to fail at following the diet prescribed. The nurse recognizes that the patient is using which defense mechanism?
- A. Conversion
- B. Projection
- C. Introjection
- D. Repression
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Projection is attributing to other's characteristics that the person does not want to acknowledge.
How should the nurse document the behavior of a patient with mental illness?
- A. Very disruptive to a person in society
- B. Differing from socially acceptable behavior
- C. Causing the person to be involved in problems
- D. Resulting from an inability to exercise control
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Mental illness can cause behavior that deviates from socially and culturally acceptable behavior.
In the movie Gone With the Wind, Scarlett O'Hara says, 'I'll think about that tomorrow. Tomorrow is another day.' The nurse recognizes the defense mechanism of
Correct Answer: repression
Rationale: Repression is an unconscious barring of anxiety-producing thoughts.