A Practitioner Is Called to the Emergency Department to Evaluate

question 26

Multiple Choice

A practitioner is called to the emergency department to evaluate a patient from a nursing home in chronic renal failure with fluid retention.What would the practitioner would expect the patient's blood pressure to be?

• A) Hypotensive
• B) Hypertensive
• C) Normal
• D) Lower than normal

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Definitions:

Behavior

The responses or behaviors of an individual, whether human or animal, triggered by outside or inside factors.

Punishment

The imposition of a penalty or unpleasant consequence in response to an undesirable behavior, aimed at reducing or eliminating that behavior.

Extinction

In behavioral psychology, the gradual weakening and eventual disappearance of a conditioned response.

Desirable Behaviors

Actions or conduct considered appealing or appropriate by a group, culture, or society, often encouraged or rewarded.