A Nurse Is Asked to "Float" to Another Area Where

question 24

Multiple Choice

A nurse is asked to "float" to another area where the patients require total care.The nurse smiles,picks up her stethoscope,and says,"I'll come back and eat lunch with everyone here." When she enters the elevator she hits the wall and mutters,"Always me.Don't I have any rights"? The nurse is demonstrating which communication style?

• A) Assertive
• B) Aggressive
• C) Passive
• D) Passive-aggressive

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Definitions:

Preconscious

The part of the mind containing thoughts and feelings that are not currently in conscious awareness but can be easily accessed.

Psychosexual Stages

A Freudian theory describing five stages of child development, each centered on sexual pleasure from different body areas.

Phallic

Referring to or characterized by the third stage of psychosexual development in Freudian theory, focusing on the genital organs as the primary source of pleasure.

Latency

In psychoanalytic theory, a period of childhood development characterized by the sublimation of instinctual drives; it is considered a phase of relative psychological calm.