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A Student Nurse Is Caring for a Client Receiving Interferon

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A student nurse is caring for a client receiving interferon alpha -2b for the treatment of hepatitis C. Which of the following changes in her client's condition does she recognize as a serious effect of interferon treatment?


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Defense Mechanisms

Unconscious psychological strategies employed to protect oneself from anxiety and to manage emotional conflict and internal or external stressors.

Anxiety

A mood of unease or nervousness, often due to something happening soon or because the consequence is unknown.

Freud

Sigmund Freud, recognized for his theories on the unconscious mind and the development of psychoanalytic therapy.

Fixation

In psychology, a persistent focus of the id’s pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier stage of psychosexual development.

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