After Teaching a Patient with Newly Diagnosed Raynaud's Phenomenon About

question 9

Multiple Choice

After teaching a patient with newly diagnosed Raynaud's phenomenon about how to manage the condition, which behavior by the patient indicates that the teaching has been effective?

• A) The patient places the hands in hot water when they turn pale.
• B) The patient exercises indoors during the winter months.
• C) The patient takes pseudoephedrine (Sudafed) for cold symptoms.
• D) The patient avoids the use of aspirin and the NSAIDs.

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Definitions:

Source Traits

Stable and permanent traits that are the basic factors of personality, derived by the method of factor analysis.

Surface Traits

Traits that show a correlation but do not constitute a factor because they are not determined by a single source.

Personality

The combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character, shaping their patterns of thought, feelings, and behaviors.

Factor

An element contributing to a particular result or situation.