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Janet spent her day going to the grocery store, working in her garden, and watching a movie about pirates. When sleeping at night, she dreams that she is a pirate in a sword fight with a giant rose , but she knows she can win the fight if she buys all the toilet paper in the store. The next day she recalls her dream, and thinks that the randomness of her dream probably had something to do with her brain processing the activites of her day. Janet’s reaction to her dream is best represented by the following dream theory:

Which of the following is not complication of lack of sleep?

Dylan is selected for a study on music preference and anger. He thinks the experimenter’s hypothesis is that people who listen to heavy metal music are more aggressive. As a result, he reports listening to heavy metal music more often than he really does and reports on a questionnaire that he feels more angry than he actually does. What is this an example of?

Robert is a participant in a sleep study. He has electrodes attached to his head while he sleeps, and a researcher in the next room is watching his electrical brain activity. The researcher notices theta waves with large k complexes and sleep spindles. What stage of sleep is Robert in?

Mike falls asleep watching a TV news segment about the war in Afghanistan. He starts to dream. In his dream, military personnel come to his room and tell him that a guided missile is headed straight for him. In his dream, Mike tries to escape the incoming missile by jumping through the window of his room. While sleeping, Mike actually gets up out bed and actually jumps through the window of his room. Mike is an example of what sleep disorder?

A 4-year-old child tells the nurse that she does not want another blood sample drawn because “I need all my insides, and I don’t want anyone taking them out.” Which is the nurse’s best interpretation of this?

The nurse is planning how to best prepare a 4-year-old child for some diagnostic procedures. Guidelines for preparing this preschooler should include:

A nurse is caring for an infant with a Spina Bifida Cystica. What does the nurse expect this infant to have that differentiates it from an infant with a Spina Bifida Occulta?

What should the nurse include in a teaching plan for the parents of a child with vesicoureteral reflux?

A 7-year-old boy with the diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is receiving methylphenidate. His mother asks about its action and side effects. What is the nurse’s initial response?