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CEN Practice Exam (Certified Emergency Nurse)

Category - Psychology

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Your patient has been admitted to the hospital with acute blindness. After many tests are run the physician can find no organic reason for the patient’s blindness. You learn that the patient became blind after witnessing a serious car accident where several people were killed. What do you suspect is the cause of the patient’s blindness?
  1. Psychosis
  2. Conversion disorder
  3. Dissociative disorder
  4. epression
Explanation
Answer: B - The patient is suffering from conversion disorder. The patient has witnessed something so unbelievable that they have gone blind in order to deal with the conflict. Conversion disorder is when a patient has an alteration or loss of physical functioning that has not pathological cause.
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