A Patient Expresses Fear of Going Home and Being Alone

question 7

Multiple Choice

A patient expresses fear of going home and being alone.Her vital signs are stable and her incision is nearly completely healed.The nurse can infer from the subjective data that

• A) The patient can now perform the dressing changes herself.
• B) The patient can begin retaking all her previous medications.
• C) The patient is apprehensive about discharge.
• D) Surgery was not successful.

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Definitions:

Healer

An individual who facilitates the recovery of health or wellbeing, often using traditional, spiritual, or psychological methods.

Heal Thyself

An adage encouraging personal responsibility for one's health, suggesting that individuals have the innate ability to manage or recover from physical or psychological conditions.

Jungian Counseling

A therapeutic approach based on the theories of Carl Jung, emphasizing the collective unconscious, archetypes, and individuation.

Collective Unconscious

A term coined by Carl Jung, referring to structures of the unconscious mind shared among beings of the same species.