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You are caring for a hospice client who is at the end of life. Based on this client's signs and symptoms, the client is comatose, dehydrated, free of pain, constipated, without distress and expected to die in a day or two. Which of the following is an appropriate client outcome or an appropriate intervention for this client?
- A. The client will be free of constipation
- B. The client will remain free of pain and distress
- C. The administration of an antiemetic to prevent vomiting and further dehydration
- D. The administration of an enema to correct the constipation
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Maintaining comfort (B) is appropriate given the client's state and prognosis.
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Which of the following questions is associated directly with the domain of life control?
- A. How do you deal with the stress in your life?
- B. Do you ever feel that you are treated unfairly by the health care system?
- C. Do you have trouble reading the instructions on your medicine bottles?
- D. Do you feel that God (or spirituality) provides a strong source of support in your life?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: This question assesses coping mechanisms, tied to life control.
A hedonic orientation concerned with positive affective experiences:
- A. The engaged life
- B. The meaningful life
- C. The pleasant life
- D. None
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: The pleasant life (Seligman) focuses on hedonic, positive affective experiences.
Which of the following statements is true about marriage in China?
- A. Arranged marriages are mostly limited to urban centers
- B. The government only recognizes arranged marriages under law
- C. Free-choice marriage is a right for women age 20 and older
- D. Only one party needs to give consent to an arranged marriage
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Chinese law grants free-choice marriage rights to women 20+ and men 22+.
Some more tenets of SLFT -- find the one which doesn't belong....
- A. To change someone else's behaviour change the way you respond
- B. The family is the expert, each family is unique
- C. Repeated trying and testing is necessary for new learning
- D. Biopsychosocial change provides the fastest learning
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Family as expert aligns more with narrative therapy, not SLFT's behavioral focus.
A study of the feeding behaviour of a group of wild monkeys in India would be an example of:
- A. a survey
- B. naturalistic observation
- C. a correlation
- D. an experiment
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Observing wild monkeys' feeding in their habitat is naturalistic observation.