The Nurse Takes Additional Time Getting to Know a Patient

question 31

Multiple Choice

The nurse takes additional time getting to know a patient admitted for surgery because

• A) The patient may not fully cooperate with the nurse otherwise.
• B) It is important that the nurse be prepared to answer any questions that the family may have about the patient.
• C) The nurse believes that a patient responds better if she and the patient are on a first-name basis.
• D) The nurse believes that establishing rapport with a patient leads to a trusting nurse-patient relationship.

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Definitions:

Conjunction

In grammar, it refers to a part of speech that connects words, sentences, phrases, or clauses. In logic, it's a compound statement that is true if both of its component statements are true.

Truth Table

A diagram displaying the truth or falsity of a compound proposition as a function of the truth or falsity of its atomic statements and connectives.

Truth Values

The property of propositions that indicates whether they correspond to reality, commonly distinguished as true or false, but in some systems can include other values like unknown or undetermined.

Main Connective

The logical operator in a proposition that has the highest priority in determining the proposition's overall truth value.