A 22-Year-Old Patient Is Admitted to the Hospital with Anorexia

question 19

Multiple Choice

A 22-year-old patient is admitted to the hospital with anorexia nervosa. The patient is 5 ft 5 in (163 cm) tall and weighs 90 pounds (41 kg) . Laboratory tests reveal hypokalemia and iron-deficiency anemia. In planning care for the patient, the nurse places the highest priority on the nursing diagnosis of

• A) ineffective health maintenance related to obsession with body image.
• B) risk for decreased cardiac output related to electrolyte imbalance.
• C) imbalanced nutrition: less than body requirements related to refusal to eat.
• D) risk for activity intolerance related to anemia and weakness.

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Definitions:

Jealousy

A complex emotion that often involves feelings of insecurity, fear, concern, and envy over relative lack of possessions, status or something of great personal value.

Oedipus Complex

A psychoanalytic theory from Freud that describes a child's feelings of desire for the opposite-sex parent and jealousy and rivalry with the same-sex parent.

Freudian Stage

Refers to any of the developmental phases in Sigmund Freud's theory of psychosexual development, each characterized by fixation on a different pleasure area of the body.

Phallic

Relating to or resembling a phallus; often used in psychoanalytic theory to describe the stage of psychosexual development focused on the genitals.