When Performing a Patient Assessment, a Nurse Correctly Recognizes That

question 5

Multiple Choice

When performing a patient assessment, a nurse correctly recognizes that subjective data include

• A) A patient's vital signs.
• B) A patient's unsteady gait.
• C) A patient's foul-smelling wound.
• D) A patient's complaint of discomfort.

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Definitions:

Projection

Assigning to others those traits that people fear they possess themselves.

Self-Handicapping

Placing obstacles in the way of one's own success to protect self-esteem from a possible future failure.

Self-Handicapping

A cognitive strategy where an individual sets up excuses or obstacles before a performance to have external factors to blame in case of failure.

Possible Selves

Images of what the self might become in the future.