Once a Patient Has Recovered Completely from Syncope, What Is

question 17

Multiple Choice

Once a patient has recovered completely from syncope, what is the next step?

• A) An ambulance should be called.
• B) The patient's primary care physician should be notified.
• C) All information concerning the episode should be documented in the patient's chart.
• D) The patient should be referred to a psychologist to help alleviate future anxiety.

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Definitions:

Core Affect

A fundamental psychological state underlying mood and emotions, representing the most basic feelings of pleasure or displeasure and arousal or sleepiness.

Pleasantness and Arousal

Dimensions used in emotion research, indicating respectively how positive or negative an emotion is, and how much it physiologically activates or excites an individual.

Circumplex Dimensionality

A conceptual framework for organizing interrelated variables in a circular structure, often used in personality and emotion research.

Communicative Behaviors

Actions that are involved in the exchange of information between individuals, including verbal speech and non-verbal cues.