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A Patient Is Admitted with Injuries Sustained in a Fall

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A patient is admitted with injuries sustained in a fall. During the nurse's first assessment upon admission, the findings are: blood pressure 90/60 (as compared to 136/66 in the emergency department) , flaccid paralysis on the right, absent bowel sounds, zero urine output, and palpation of a distended bladder. The nurse realizes that these findings are consistent with which condition?


Definitions:

Misinformation Effect

The occurrence when an individual's memory of events is distorted due to information received after the event.

Encoding Failure

The phenomenon in which information does not enter the brain's long-term memory, typically resulting in the inability to recall this information later.

Event Imagined

The act of mentally visualizing or simulating a possible event in one's mind.

Memory Construction

The process by which our brain encodes, stores, and retrieves information, heavily influenced by our perceptions, beliefs, and experiences.

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