The Nurse Is Caring for a Patient Who Is Terminally

question 7

Multiple Choice

The nurse is caring for a patient who is terminally ill and can no longer speak. Which best indicates that this patient is in pain?

• A) Skin is cool and moist to touch.
• B) Facial grimacing with moaning when turned
• C) Cyanotic feet and lower legs
• D) Cheyne-Stokes respiratory pattern

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Definitions:

Unconscious Impulses

Desires or urges that lie outside of conscious awareness, influencing behavior without one's conscious recognition.

Weak Situation

Contexts in which social norms, cues, or other situational factors are ambiguous, allowing for a greater variety of behaviors and making personal dispositions more influential.

Personality Differences

Variations in the patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that distinguish individuals from one another.

Situationism

The theory that behavior is determined more by situations than by personality traits.