The Intervention That Is Most Effective at Reducing Patient Violence

question 16

Multiple Choice

The intervention that is most effective at reducing patient violence against nurses is

• A) teaching nurses to communicate respect for patients and confidence in themselves.
• B) requiring nurses to work in groups rather than alone.
• C) having security personnel stationed on all units.
• D) assigning only male nurses to care for psychiatric or chemical dependency patients.

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Definitions:

Conditioned Response

An acquired reaction to a stimulus that was once neutral, now associated with a stimulus that elicits an innate response.

Unconditioned Response

An automatic and involuntary reaction to a stimulus that occurs naturally, without any prior learning.

Classical Conditioning

A behavioral training method where the consistent pairing of two stimuli results in a response originally elicited by the second stimulus being ultimately elicited by the first stimulus.

Unconditioned Stimuli

Stimuli that naturally and automatically trigger a response without any prior learning.