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The Nurse Is Caring for a Patient Who Was Admitted

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The nurse is caring for a patient who was admitted with fractures sustained during an MVC (motor vehicle collision) .The patient tearfully confesses that she relives the accident in her dreams and is afraid to sleep.The nurse recognizes that this scenario is consistent with which disorder?


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Collective Guilt

Emotional experience where individuals feel responsible for the actions of a group they identify with, even if they didn't partake in those actions directly.

Just World Phenomenon

The cognitive bias that a person's actions always bring morally fair and fitting consequences to that person.

Kin Selection

A strategy in evolution where an organism's focus is on enhancing the reproductive prospects of its relatives, even if it results in a compromise to its own survival and ability to reproduce.

Social Exchange

Social exchange is a theory that suggests human relationships are formed based on a subjective cost-benefit analysis and the comparison of alternatives.

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