A Resident Has a Venous Ulcer

question 68

Multiple Choice

A resident has a venous ulcer.The doctor ordered elastic stockings.What size should you use?

• A)Large thigh-high
• B)Large knee-high
• C)Medium thigh-high
• D)The size directed by the nurse

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Definitions:

Behavior Therapy

A type of psychotherapy that focuses on changing undesirable behaviors through conditioning and learning techniques.

Transference

In psychoanalysis, the process by which patients displace onto their analysts feelings and ideas which derive from previous figures in their lives.

Psychodynamic Therapy

A therapeutic approach that emphasizes unconscious processes and past experiences in shaping current behavior and feelings.

Counterconditioning

A behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors.