A Patient Has Been in the Intensive Care Unit for 10

question 11

Multiple Choice

A patient has been in the intensive care unit for 10 days.He has just been moved to the medical-surgical unit,and the admitting nurse is planning to perform a mental status examination on him.During the tests of cognitive function the nurse would expect that he:

• A) may display some disruption in thought content.
• B) will state, "I am so relieved to be out of intensive care."
• C) will be oriented to place and person but may not be certain of the date.
• D) may show evidence of some clouding of his level of consciousness.

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Definitions:

Unconscious Wishes

Refers to desires or thoughts that are not accessible to an individual's conscious awareness, often influencing behavior in psychoanalytic theories.

Psychoanalysis

A therapeutic approach primarily focusing on revealing and understanding the unconscious mind, originally developed by Sigmund Freud.

Specific Phobias

Any of the disorders characterized by extreme and irrational fear of a particular object or situation.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired: a response that is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.