When the Client Complains of Nausea After Receiving His First

question 14

Multiple Choice

When the client complains of nausea after receiving his first dose of morphine for pain, the nurse should

• A) encourage the client to wait as long as possible for the next dose.
• B) give only half of the prescribed dose of morphine the next time.
• C) instruct the client that with continued use the nausea will lessen.
• D) withhold the next dose of morphine until re-evaluation by the physician.

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Definitions:

Behavioral Approach

A psychological perspective focusing on observable behaviors and the ways in which they can be learned, changed, or extinguished.

Habitual Behaviors

Actions that are regularly practiced, often performed unconsciously due to being ingrained through repetition in daily routines.

Second-Order Conditioning

A form of conditioning where a stimulus that's paired with a conditioned stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus itself.

Classical Conditioning

A training method where two signals are consistently associated together, leading to a situation where a reaction originally triggered by the second signal is later triggered by the first signal on its own.