A Patient with Severe Sepsis Is Not Responding to Treatment

question 26

Multiple Choice

A patient with severe sepsis is not responding to treatment. What should the nurse include when planning the care of this patient?

• A) Select palliative care principles.
• B) Reevaluate success of treatment every 8 hours.
• C) Recommend the family go home to get some rest.
• D) Suggest additional treatment measure to the physician.

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Definitions:

Stimulus Discrimination

The ability of an individual to differentiate between similar stimuli and respond to them differently.

Selective Retention

The psychological process by which individuals remember information that is consistent with their beliefs and attitudes while forgetting or ignoring contradictory information.

Routine Problem Solving

The use of simple, habitual decision-making strategies in buying situations that are familiar and not considered to be of high importance.

Behavioral Learning

Behavioral learning theory suggests that learning is the result of conditioning, where behavior is shaped through reinforcement or punishment, leading to a change in behavior patterns.