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The Nurse Is Caring for a Client Who Is Diagnosed

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The nurse is caring for a client who is diagnosed with a highly virulent organism.The client's family asks what this means.What is the nurse's best response?


Definitions:

Perception

The process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions to give meaning to their environment.

Top-Down Perceptual Processes

Cognitive processes that involve using previous knowledge, expectations, and experiences to interpret and understand sensory information.

Template Matching

A technique in pattern recognition in which a predefined template or pattern is compared with potential matches.

Prototype Matching

A cognitive process where new items are compared to an idealized or average category member to make recognition or classification decisions.

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