A Patient Is Scheduled for Exploratory Abdominal Surgery to Determine

question 5

Multiple Choice

A patient is scheduled for exploratory abdominal surgery to determine the cause of intermittent abdominal pain that he has had for the past six months.He tells the nurse that it will be a relief to finally have an answer as to the cause of the pain and that he feels relaxed about having the surgery.The nurse concludes that the patient is depicting stress as which type of transaction?

• A) He is denying his anxiety about the planned surgery.
• B) He will have no physiological response to the surgical procedure.
• C) He has a sense of coherence that is able to mediate his stress.
• D) He does not perceive that he is lacking adaptive resources for the planned surgery.

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