To Promote Patient Understanding and Promote Security,the Nurse Should

question 10

Multiple Choice

To promote patient understanding and promote security,the nurse should:

• A) Restrain the patient
• B) Explain all procedures
• C) Allow the patient more time alone
• D) Restrict activity as much as possible

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Definitions:

Id's Desires

Refers to the component of Sigmund Freud's personality theory containing the primitive and instinctive behaviors and urges.

Defense Mechanism

Unconscious psychological mechanisms that reduce anxiety arising from unacceptable or potentially harmful stimuli.

Sublimation

Channeling socially unacceptable impulses and urges into socially acceptable behavior.

Superego

One of the three components of the human psyche in Freudian psychoanalytic theory, representing the internalized societal standards of morality and ethics.