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When Preparing to Conduct a Nursing History and Assessment on a Patient

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When preparing to conduct a nursing history and assessment on a patient transferred from the emergency department (ED) whose family believes the patient to be a questionable historian due to cognitive impairment,the nurse initially begins the interview by:


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Conditioned Response

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that has become conditioned through association.

Cat Food

Manufactured food specifically formulated to meet the nutritional needs of domestic cats.

Classical Conditioning

A conditioning method where a response initially triggered by a second stimulus comes to be elicited by the first stimulus alone after repeated pairings of the two stimuli.

CS and US

In classical conditioning, CS stands for Conditioned Stimulus, which is a previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with the unconditioned stimulus (US), eventually comes to trigger a conditioned response.

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