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The nursing student can help geriatric patients’ self-concept by using which technique?
Reviewing old photos with patients
While gathering an adolescent’s health history, the nurse recognizes that the patient
began to act out behaviorally and engage in risky behavior when her parents divorced. In
considering an altered self-concept nursing diagnosis, the nurse would gather what information?
How the patient views her behaviors
Based on the following data, which person is likely to have the highest self-esteem?
Latino adolescent female who has strong ethnic pride
The developmental self-concept task known as initiative versus guilt would occur in
which person?
5-year-old kindergarten student
A verbally abusive partner has told his significant other many negative comments over
the years. In the crisis center, the nurse would anticipate that the patient may have which of the
following self-concept deficits?
Body image
Two 50-year-old men are discussing their Saturday activities. The first man describes
how he tutors children as a volunteer at a community center. The other man says that he would
never work with children, and that he prefers to work out at the gym to meet young women to date.
The second man’s statement reflects which developmental stage?
Self-absorption
An adult is adjusting to the idea of his chronically ill parent moving into the family
home. The community health nurse would assess the adult son for which potential stressor
secondary to the new family living arrangement?
Role overload
A nurse who grimaces when seeing a patient’s colostomy opening while changing the
colostomy bag is most likely to have what effect on the patient?
Promote development of a negative body image.
“I’m such a loser. I only had that job for a month.” Identify appropriate nursing outcome
criteria for this individual.
The patient will verbalize two life areas in which he or she functions well.
Children learn to live an authentic lifestyle through culturally accepted behaviors,
values, and role modeling. A child who does this is attempting to create his or her own
Identity.
Which of the following individuals is most likely to need the nurse’s assistance
because of the presence of identity confusion?
35-year-old recently divorced mother of twins
Identify the assessments suggestive of an altered self-concept.
Slumped posture and poor personal hygiene
A priority nursing intervention for a postoperative mastectomy patient is which of the
following?
Using communication skills to clarify family and patient expectations
The nurse in an addictions clinic is working with a patient on priority setting before the
patient’s discharge from residential treatment. An appropriate priority for a patient at this clinic
would be
Identifying local self-help groups before being discharged from the program.
Based on current evidence, the nurse who plans smoking cessation interventions for
adolescent girls should focus on interventions directed toward
Weight management, self-esteem, and stress management.
