A Patient Who Is Taking Lithium Shares with the Nurse,"I'm

question 8

Multiple Choice

A patient who is taking lithium shares with the nurse,"I'm planning to breast-feed my baby who is due to be born in 2 months." Which statement shows the best understanding of the effect of lithium on breast-feeding?

• A) "Your medication would be excreted in your breast milk, so let's discuss a safer option for your baby."
• B) "Your medication will cause the breast milk to have an unpleasant taste and will likely cause your infant to be gassy."
• C) "This medication will likely affect your ability to lactate, resulting in a marked decrease in breast milk production."
• D) "This medication can cause extreme mood fluctuations, which can have a negative effect on your ability to produce breast milk."

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Definitions:

Self-serving Bias

The common tendency to attribute our successes to internal factors while attributing failures to external ones.

Attribution Style

A concept in psychology that refers to how individuals explain the causes of behavior and events, often categorized into internal (dispositional) or external (situational) attributions.

Fundamental Attribution Error

A cognitive bias that involves overestimating the effect of personality and underestimating the influence of situational factors when explaining others' actions.

Weiner

Refers to Bernard Weiner, a psychologist known for his work on attribution theory, which deals with how people interpret and attribute causes to events and behaviors.