A Factory Abruptly Closes;workers Receive No Warning and No Explanation

question 22

Multiple Choice

A factory abruptly closes;workers receive no warning and no explanation.An office worker tells the factory nurse,who is standing by to assist overwhelmed employees: "I do not know what to do.How will I get another job? Who will pay the bills? How will I get money to feed my kids? What will we do?" Which nursing diagnosis best fits this presentation?

• A) Hopelessness
• B) Powerlessness
• C) Chronic low self-esteem
• D) Disturbed thought processes

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Definitions:

Polyphyletic

A term describing a group of organisms that are classified together but do not share a recent common ancestor.

Homoplastic

Exhibiting similarity in appearance due to convergent evolution rather than ancestry.

R. H. Whittaker

An American ecologist famous for proposing the five kingdom classification of organisms in 1969.

Five-kingdom Classification

A system of categorizing all living organisms into five groups: Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia.