A Nurse Assesses a Client and Notes the Client's Position

question 6

Multiple Choice

A nurse assesses a client and notes the client's position as indicated in the illustration below:

How should the nurse document this finding?

• A) Decorticate posturing
• B) Decerebrate posturing
• C) Atypical hyperreflexia
• D) Spinal cord degeneration

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Definitions:

North America

A continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere, including countries such as Canada, the United States, and Mexico.

Slave Codes

Laws established in the colonial and antebellum South to define the status of slaves and codify the denial of basic civil rights to them.

Free Blacks

African Americans who were not enslaved before the abolition of slavery, living in both the North and South, facing systemic racism and discrimination.

Planters

Wealthy landowners in the American South who owned plantations and typically enslaved African Americans to work on them.