A Person Was Abducted and Raped at Gunpoint by an Unknown

question 20

Multiple Choice

A person was abducted and raped at gunpoint by an unknown assailant. Which interventions should the nurse use while caring for this person in the emergency department? (Select all that apply.)

• A) Allow the person to talk at a comfortable pace.
• B) Pose questions in nonjudgmental, empathic ways.
• C) Place the person in a private room with a caregiver.
• D) Reassure the person that a family member will arrive as soon as possible.
• E) Invite family members to the examination room and involve them in taking the history.

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Definitions:

Strange Situation

A procedure developed by Mary Ainsworth in the 1970s to observe attachment relationships between a caregiver and child.

Ambivalent

A psychological state where an individual simultaneously holds conflicting attitudes or feelings toward an object, person, or situation.

Recessive Trait

A genetic trait that is expressed only when two recessive alleles for the same characteristic are inherited, one from each parent.

Gene

A basic unit of heredity, made up of DNA, that contains the information necessary to build and maintain an organism's cells and pass genetic traits to offspring.