A Client with Hodgkin Disease Has Been on Long-Term Prednisone

question 9

Multiple Choice

A client with Hodgkin disease has been on long-term prednisone therapy.The nurse will assess this client for symptoms of which disorder?

• A)Lymphoma
• B)Leukemia
• C)Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS)
• D)Cushing syndrome

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Definitions:

Retrograde Amnesia

A loss of memory access to events that occurred, or information that was learned, before an injury or the onset of a disease.

Pseudoforgetting

The phenomenon where information is thought to be forgotten but actually was never learned effectively in the first place.

Ineffective Encoding

The failure to store relevant or necessary information in memory due to insufficient attention or misunderstanding.

Motivated Forgetting

A theoretical concept suggesting that people may forget unwanted information, either consciously or unconsciously, as a defense mechanism.