A Patient Has Just Been Visited by the Anesthesiologist Who

question 11

Multiple Choice

A patient has just been visited by the anesthesiologist who will provide anesthesia during the patient's abdominal surgery the next day.The patient says,"I think I heard the doctor say something about hypnosis.I don't believe in all of that." How should the nurse respond? Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected.

• A)"Hypnosis is a standard method of relaxing the patient before anesthesia is started."
• B)"That just means the drugs are going to make you unaware of what is happening."
• C)"The doctor needs to block all of your reflexes so the surgeon can do the surgery."
• D)"This is not the same as the kind of hypnosis you might see on television."
• E)"The doctors do not want you to remember the pain of your procedure."

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Definitions:

Stimuli

Physical or chemical changes in the external or internal environment that evoke a response from a living organism.

Acclimation

The process of an organism adjusting to change in its environment, allowing it to survive and reproduce.

Habituation

A process by which an animal decreases or stops its response to a repetitive stimulus that does not bring any inherent reward or harm.

Empiricist

A person or theory that emphasizes the role of sensory experience in the formation of ideas, arguing that knowledge comes primarily from experience.