A Client Is Admitted to Your Unit with a Diagnosis

question 10

Multiple Choice

A client is admitted to your unit with a diagnosis of phlebothrombosis. When you assess this client, what would you expect to find?

• A) Low-grade fever without pain
• B) Positive Homans' sign
• C) Positive Trousseau's sign
• D) Redness, heat, and swelling of the extremity

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Definitions:

Harm Reduction

Strategies and policies aimed at reducing the negative consequences associated with various human behaviors, particularly in public health contexts.

The Superego

A component of Freud's psychoanalytic theory, the superego represents the internalization of societal and parental standards of conduct, functioning to suppress urges of the id and to strive for perfection.

Schema

A schema is a cognitive framework or concept that helps organize and interpret information in the world, guiding our expectations and understanding of experiences.

Human Mortality

The condition of being susceptible to death; the statistical study of human deaths in a population.