The Nurse Knows That a Bowel Elimination Schedule Would Be

question 18

Multiple Choice

The nurse knows that a bowel elimination schedule would be most beneficial in the plan of care for which patient?

• A)A 40-year-old patient with an ileostomy.
• B)A 25-year-old patient with Crohn's disease.
• C)A 30-year-old patient with C.difficile infection.
• D)A 70-year-old patient with stool incontinence.

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Definitions:

Reciprocal Determinism

a concept in psychology that individuals and their behavior are shaped by the interaction between personal factors, their environment, and their behavior.

Defense Mechanisms

Psychological strategies unconsciously used by individuals to protect themselves from anxiety and to manage emotional conflict and internal or external stressors.

Psychosexual Stages

A Freudian theory describing the stages of a child's development, each characterized by the erogenous zone that is the source of the child's psychosexual energy.

Fixations

Persistent focus on an earlier psychosexual stage due to unresolved conflicts, as per Freudian theory.