Important Self-Care Measures the Nurse Should Teach to the Client

question 32

Multiple Choice

Important self-care measures the nurse should teach to the client who is expected to be immobile in a wheelchair for a lengthy period of time include

• A) learning how to inspect all skin surfaces for friction or pressure.
• B) massaging bony prominences four times a day.
• C) sitting upright in a chair or wheelchair on the sacrum.
• D) using a gel wheelchair cushion to prevent pressure ulcers.

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Definitions:

Extinction

Extinction in behavioral psychology refers to the gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response when the reinforcement is no longer provided.

Extinction

In behavioral psychology, the process whereby a learned response is reduced or eliminated, often as a result of repeated absence of the expected reinforcement.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after being associated with an unconditioned stimulus, elicits a conditioned response.

Classically Conditioned

Pertains to a learning process in psychology where an association is made between a naturally occurring stimulus and a previously neutral stimulus.