You Are Working with an Outpatient Who Needs to Go

question 88

Multiple Choice

You are working with an outpatient who needs to go home on an "E" cylinder. She is wearing a nasal cannula at 2 L/min, and her cylinder has 1,500 psi remaining. She needs to travel by car one and one-half hours to reach her home and her concentrator. Can she make it?

• A) yes
• B) no

Discuss the concept of hardiness in stress resistance.

Understand different states of consciousness and altered states such as meditation and hypnosis.

Differentiate between various sleep disorders and disturbances, including sleep terrors and nightmares.

Identify and explain theories related to dreams and dreaming.

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Definitions:

Fertility

The natural capability to produce offspring, often measured by the number of births per population, per year.

Malthusian

Relating to the theory proposed by Thomas Malthus that population growth inevitably outpaces food production and resource availability, leading to societal collapse unless checked by moral restraint or disaster.

Preventive Measures

Actions or strategies taken in advance to reduce the risk of harm or to prevent undesirable outcomes.

Demography

The scientific study of populations, including their sizes, compositions, distributions, and how these change over time.