A Patient Is Admitted to the Orthopedic Unit with a Fractured

question 2

Multiple Choice

A patient is admitted to the orthopedic unit with a fractured right elbow following a skiing accident.During the initial nursing assessment,what information is related to the functional health pattern regarding the patient's fractured elbow and the treatment he has received?

• A) Activity-exercise
• B) Cognitive-perceptual
• C) Self-perception-self-concept
• D) Health perception-health management

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Definitions:

Somatic Hallucination

A type of hallucination where an individual feels as if they are experiencing physical sensations that have no physical cause.

Word Salad

A speech pattern that is incoherent and disjointed, associated with severe mental illnesses like schizophrenia, where words are scrambled, rendering the speech difficult to understand.

Blunted Affect

A reduction in the expression of emotions, often seen as a symptom of certain psychiatric conditions, where the emotional range is significantly diminished.

Dementia Praecox

An outdated term once used to describe what is now known as schizophrenia, characterized by early onset of disconnection from reality.