A Client Is Experiencing Little Flashes of Lights and Things

question 11

Multiple Choice

A client is experiencing little flashes of lights and things floating in the visual field. The nurse suspects:

• A) cataracts.
• B) glaucoma.
• C) conjunctivitis.
• D) retinal detachment.

Describe the roles of coping skills, lifestyle impairments, and cognitive processes in addiction and relapse.

Recognize the relationship between abstinence, recovery, and relapse.

Understand the concepts of distal risks, cognitive processes, tonic and phasic responses within the framework of relapse models.

Explain the importance of Gorski's model goals in relapse prevention.

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Definitions:

Postpartum Psychosis

A severe mental health condition that can affect new mothers, characterized by extreme mood swings, confusion, hallucinations, and delusions.

Severe Depression

A major depressive disorder characterized by profound and persistent feelings of sadness or despair and a lack of interest in activities, significantly affecting daily functioning.

Delusional Thoughts

Fixed false beliefs that are resistant to reason or confrontation with actual fact, often occurring in psychiatric conditions.

Prostaglandins

A group of physiologically active lipid compounds having diverse hormone-like effects in animals, involved in controlling processes such as inflammation, blood flow, the formation of blood clots, and the induction of labor.