A 10-Year-Old Patient Will Be Started on Methylphenidate Hydrochloride (Ritalin)

question 9

Multiple Choice

A 10-year-old patient will be started on methylphenidate hydrochloride (Ritalin) therapy. The nurse will perform which essential baseline assessment before this drug is started?

• A) Eye examination
• B) Height and weight
• C) Liver studies
• D) Hearing test

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Definitions:

Illusory Correlation

The perception of a relationship between two variables when none exists.

Self-Serving Attribution

A common tendency to attribute successes to personal characteristics and failures to external factors.

Internal Attribution

The process of explaining one's own or others' behavior as due to personal, intrinsic factors.

External-Unstable

A causation attribution in psychology where an individual attributes events to causes outside themselves that are variable or subject to change.