A Patient Who Is Admitted with PTSD Says He Had

question 17

Multiple Choice

A patient who is admitted with PTSD says he had a very stressful experience when in high school and has never really recovered.Appropriate nursing action would be to:

• A) Encourage the patient to talk about what caused the traumatic event.
• B) Guide the patient in relaxation techniques to distract him when flashbacks occur.
• C) Provide sleeping medication so that he can sleep at night.
• D) Allow the patient to talk about his condition as often as he likes.

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Definitions:

Implicit Memory

A type of long-term memory that does not require conscious thought and involves skills and routines that are performed automatically.

Procedural Memory

A type of long-term memory involved in the acquisition of skills and tasks that can be performed without conscious recall.

Episodic Memory

A subtype of long-term memory that involves the recollection of specific events, situations, and experiences.

Implicit Memory

Memory that influences our behavior without our conscious recognition, involving learned skills and conditioned behaviors.