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A Patient States,"I Can Hear a Crunching or Grating Sound

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A patient states,"I can hear a crunching or grating sound when I kneel." She also states that "it is very difficult to get out of bed in the morning because of stiffness and pain in my joints." The nurse should assess for signs of what problem?


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Self-fulfilling Prophecies

Situations where an individual's expectations or beliefs bring about outcomes that confirm those expectations.

Learning Disabilities

Neurologically based processing problems that can interfere with learning basic skills such as reading, writing, or math, and can also affect higher-level skills such as organization, time planning, and abstract reasoning.

Medical Model

The medical model is a framework for understanding diseases and disorders as primarily resulting from biological factors requiring medical treatment.

Psychoanalytic Perspective

A framework for understanding human behavior that emphasizes the role of unconscious processes and childhood experiences.

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