A Female Client Asks the Nurse When the Best Time

question 26

Multiple Choice

A female client asks the nurse when the best time is to perform self-breast examination (SBE) . Which response by the nurse is the most appropriate?

• A) "If you are still menstruating the best time is about 5 days after your period begins each month."
• B) "If you are postmenopausal the best time is at the beginning of each month."
• C) "It doesn't really matter as long as you keep a record of when you perform the exam."
• D) "Your primary care provider can tell you when the best time is for you."

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Definitions:

Psychodynamic Therapies

A range of therapeutic approaches that seek to reveal and resolve unconscious conflicts driving psychological symptoms.

Id

The psychic structure, present at birth, that represents physiological drives and is fully unconscious.

Ego

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the personality that mediates between the desires of the id and the constraints of the external world.

Group Therapy

A form of psychotherapy involving one or more therapists working with several people at the same time.