Difficulty: Medium
Average Score: 76%
Full-length
Passage / Scenario
A client after an electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) treatment.The nurse should report which observation to the client's physician?
Correct answer
D
Rationale
Strategy: You are looking for something unexpected. (1) expected effect (2) expected effect (3) expected effect (4) correct-client undergoing ECT needs to be instructed about what s/he could experience during and after ECT; expected effects include headache, disrupted memory (short- and long-term), and general confused state; backache is not a usual effect; thorough description of the pain in relation to severity, duration, location, and what makes pain better needs to be assessed and reported to the physician