Each Time a Nurse Administers an Insulin Injection to a Client

question 3

Multiple Choice

Each time a nurse administers an insulin injection to a client with diabetes, she tells the client what she is doing and demonstrates each step of preparing and giving the injection. What is the nurse promoting in the client?

• A) Self-care
• B) Dependence
• C) Competence
• D) Discipline

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Definitions:

Confirmation Bias

The disposition to seek, grasp, esteem, and recount information that confirms existing preconceptions or theories.

Belief Perseverance

The phenomenon where people hold onto their beliefs even when faced with evidence that contradicts or disproves them.

Heuristics

Mental shortcuts or rules of thumb that simplify decision making by reducing complex problem solving to simpler judgment processes.

Unscrambling

The process of rearranging letters or elements to restore them to a coherent or original order.