What Can You Do to Reduce the Risk of a Gag

question 11

Multiple Choice

What can you do to reduce the risk of a gag reflex?

• A)Help the patient focus on not gagging.
• B)Discuss with your patient ways to prevent gagging.
• C)Have your patient hold her breath.
• D)Give your patient a cup of ice water to drink to try to reduce tactile stimuli.

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Definitions:

Contingency Variables

Factors or conditions that can change and affect the outcome of decision-making processes or situations.

Enduring Change

A lasting transformation within an individual, organization, or society that persists over time.

Behavior

The actions or reactions of an individual or group in response to external or internal stimuli.

Learning

Learning is an enduring change in behavior that results from experience.