A Nurse Is Discussing Heart Failure with a Group of Nursing

question 6

Multiple Choice

A nurse is discussing heart failure with a group of nursing students. Which statement by a student reflects an understanding of how compensatory mechanisms can compound existing problems in patients with heart failure?

• A) "An increase in arteriolar tone to improve tissue perfusion can decrease resistance."
• B) "An increase in contractility to increase cardiac output can cause pulmonary edema."
• C) "When the heart rate increases to increase cardiac output, it can prevent adequate filling of the ventricles."
• D) "When venous tone increases to increase ventricular filling, an increase in arterial pressure occurs."

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Definitions:

Factitious Disorder

A mental disorder in which a person acts as if they have a physical or mental illness when they are not really sick, often done to assume the sick role and gain medical attention.

Munchausen Syndrome

is a psychiatric disorder where an individual deliberately produces or fabricates symptoms of illness in themselves for attention or sympathy.

Somatic Symptom Disorder

A psychological disorder characterized by an excessive focus on physical symptoms that cause significant distress or impairment.

Briquet's Syndrome

An outdated term for Somatization Disorder, a type of mental disorder characterized by multiple, recurring, and seemingly random physical symptoms not caused by any identifiable medical condition.