A Client Has Experienced the Death of a Close Family

question 1

Multiple Choice

A client has experienced the death of a close family member and at the same time becomes unemployed.The client's 6-month score on the Recent Life Changes Questionnaire is 110.The nurse:

• A)Understands the client is at risk for significant stress-related illness.
• B)Determines the client is not at risk for significant stress-related illness.
• C)Needs further assessment of the client's coping skills to determine susceptibility to stress-related illness.
• D)Recognizes the client may view the losses as challenges and perceive them as opportunities.

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Definitions:

Marginal

Term used to describe the effects of a change in the current situation. For example, a producer’s marginal cost is the cost of producing an additional unit of a product, given the producer’s current facility and production rate.

Average Increasing

A situation in which the average cost of production goes up as the quantity produced increases.

Long-run Average Total Cost

The average cost per unit of output produced over a period during which all inputs, including capital, are variable.

Diseconomies of Scale

The situation in which a business experiences an increase in average costs per unit when output is increased beyond a certain point.