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ATI Communication Quiz

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A nurse is caring for a 13-year-old female client who is admitted for an emergence appendectomy. The client asks, "Will i have a large scar from the surgery?"
"It will be small enough that it won't show when you're wearing a bathing suit"
A client is scheduled for a lumbar puncture to rule out bacterial meningitis. She tells the nurse that she is fearful of becoming paralyzed from the needle being placed into her spinal column.
"The needle is inserted below the third lumbar vertebrae, well below the point at which the spinal cord ends."
A nurse is caring for a client who has recently found out that she is pregnant. The client says, "I don't think i should tell my partner about the pregnancy."
"You seem uncertain about telling your partner."
A nurse is caring for an adolescent client who has a positive human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) Test. She tells the nurse, "I don't think i can tell my parents i am pregnant."
"You seem frightened to tell your parents."
A nurse is caring for a client who has been recently diagnosed with cancer. The client says, "I would rather be dead than go through the treatment for cancer."
"what is it that concerns you about the cancer treatment?"
A nurse is caring for a client who has major depressive disorder. The client tells the nurse, "Don't bother me. Find someone else to talk with. I don't have anything worth saying. Go find someone you can help."
"I would like to sit quietly you for a while."
A nurse is caring for an adolescent client who was recently diagnosed with testicular cancer. When the nurse asks the client a question, he angrily spits in the nurse's face.
"You seem to be very upset."
A nurse is teaching a client how to perform personal ileostomy care prior to discharge. The client says, "I don't think that i am going to be able to take care of this myself."
"What part of the ileostomy care are you having trouble with?"
An assistive personnel is bathing a client who is unconscious and is talking to him about current events and the weather. The client's partner says to the nurse, "Why does the assistive personnel talk to my husband? He's unconscious."
"Your husband is unconscious but might still be able to hear."
An emergency department nurse takes a telephone call from a client who states, "I have just taken 100 amitriptyline tablets to kill myself." The client is crying and says, "I want to die. I have no reason to live."
"Please stay on the phone with me so we can talk about your feelings."
A nurse is caring for a client who is a sexual assault survivor. The client says, "I feel so humiliated. I don't want anyone to know what happened to me."
"Are you saying that you are fearful about what others will think?"
A nurse is making morning rounds when a client says, "I almost died last night."
"That must have been frightening. Tell me more about it."
A nurse is caring for a client who had a spontaneous miscarriage at 9 weeks of gestation. The nurse walks into the client's room and finds her crying uncontrollably.
"It is hard to deal with the loss of pregnancy. Here is the number of a local support group that you can attend."
The adult child of a client has come to take his parent home from the facility following a colon resection. The client's son tells the nurse, "I don't know how i am going to take care of my mom now."
"What part of your mother's care are you concerned about?"
A nurse is caring for a client who has Type 1 diabetes mellitus and is to receive hemodialysis. The client says, "I don't even know why i'm doing this. There is no cure."
"It sounds as though you have given up."
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