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You provide your patient with three familiar words to recall and ask them to repeat them. After a few minutes of other conversation, you ask your patient to recall and repeat the words you provided earlier. Your patient can only recall one of the words. This patient is demonstrating deficits with which type of memory?

The assumption of this theoretical framework is that, by offering opportunities for controlled sensory input, the therapist can promote normal CNS processing of sensory information and thus elicit specific desired motor responses, which will, in turn, influence in which way the brain organizes and processes sensation, thus enhancing the ability to learn.

This theoretical framework assumes that patients with acquired brain injury must practice every activity in its true context in order to recover function. The focus is on retraining real-world skills rather than on retraining specific cognitive and perceptual processes.

You observe that you patients appears apathetic in therapy sessions, sometimes displays inappropriate behavior, and lacks insight into the feelings of others. You report that he displays which of the following deficits?

Which finding would a nurse expect when assessing a child diagnosed with separation anxiety disorder?

A client diagnosed with major depressive disorder shows vegetative signs of depression. Which nursing actions should be implemented? Select all that apply.

A patient diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease wanders at night. Which action should the nurse recommend for a family to use in the home to enhance safety?

A client receiving lithium should be assessed for which evidence of early toxicity?

A client develops mania after discontinuing lithium. New prescriptions are written to resume lithium twice daily and begin olanzapine. This is the expected reaction to the addition of olanzapine to the medication regimen?

After an adolescent diagnosed with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) begins methylphenidate (Ritalin) therapy, a nurse notes that the adolescent loses 10 pounds in a 2-month period. Which is the best explanation for this weight loss?