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Identifying Assumptions

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Question 1easy

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A nurse reads the following in a colleague's progress note: "Patient is nonadherent to hypertensive medication because he simply doesn’t care about his health." What is the best response from a critical thinking standpoint?

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Question 2easy

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A nursing instructor tells a student, “You’re always late for clinicals, so you must not care about the profession.” What assumption is being misidentified?

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