The Nurse Is Caring for a Client Recently Diagnosed with Hypertension.The

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Multiple Choice

The nurse is caring for a client recently diagnosed with hypertension.The client asks what medications may be used to treat the condition.The nurse begins by discussing the primary antihypertensive agents,which include which medications?
Select all that apply.

• A)Diuretics
• B)Angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs)
• C)Beta-adrenergic antagonists
• D)Direct-acting vasodilators
• E)Peripheral adrenergic antagonists

Identify key neurotransmitters and their roles in psychological processes.

Learn the methodologies used in psychological research and their limitations.

Recognize the role of psychological theories in understanding mental processes and behaviors.

Understand the impact of genetic and neurological factors on psychological disorders.

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Definitions:

Subjective

Subjective pertains to personal opinions, feelings, or tastes, as opposed to objective facts or universal truths.

Overconfidence Effect

A cognitive bias where an individual's subjective confidence in their judgments is greater than their objective accuracy.

Framing Effects

In prospect theory, changes in people’s decision making caused by new information that alters the context, or “frame of reference,” that they use to judge whether options are viewed as gains or losses relative to the status quo.

Mental Accounting

The tendency people have to create separate “mental boxes” (or “accounts”) in which they deal with particular financial transactions in isolation rather than dealing with them as part of an overall decision-making process that would consider how to best allocate their limited budgets across all possible options by using the utility-maximizing rule.