A Nurse Is Caring for a Critically Ill Client Who

question 20

Multiple Choice

A nurse is caring for a critically ill client who has type 2 diabetes. Which treatment should the nurse expect in this client?

• A)Integration of insulin therapy
• B)Consistent timing of insulin to food intake
• C)Prescription of an insulin pump
• D)Use of an insulin drip

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Definitions:

Conditioned Response

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that has become associated with another stimulus.

Extinction

In the field of psychology, the slow reduction and eventual vanishing of a learned response when the previously associated conditioned stimulus is not presented together with the unconditioned stimulus anymore.

Classical Conditioning

An associative learning framework in which a response initially evoked by a second stimulus becomes elicited by the first stimulus alone due to repeated pairings of the stimuli.

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of a previously extinguished response after a period of no exposure to the conditioned stimulus.