A Terminal Patient Asks the Nurse If He Could Be

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Multiple Choice

A terminal patient asks the nurse if he could be given a deliberate overdose of medication that would "end this." According to the Code for Nurses, the nurse's most ethical response would be:

• A) "Bringing on your death in this manner would be a subject you should discuss with your family and primary care provider."
• B) "I can contact the primary care provider and request an order for a drug that could be used as you request."
• C) "I cannot ethically give you a deliberate overdose."
• D) "Let me have a while to consider your request."

Recognize the capacity limits and strategies for enhancing short-term memory.

Understand the differences between explicit (declarative) and implicit (nondeclarative) memory, including episodic, semantic, and procedural memory.

Learn about maintenance and elaborative rehearsal strategies for retaining information in short-term and encoding it into long-term memory.

Identify the role of the self-reference effect in enhancing memory retention.

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