The nurse is explaining the advantage of advanced directives to a patient diagnosed with schizophrenia. Which psychiatric outcome is a result of such preplanning?
a. Allows healthcare providers to manage the patient's mental health care
b. Decreases the possibility that the patient will be committed involuntarily
c. Directly impacts the type of care the patient will receive as the disease progresses
d. Assures that the patient will retain continued autonomy and independence of liv-ing
ANS: B
The implementation of psychiatric advance directives significantly decreases involuntary commitments. Healthcare management and treatments are not affected by psychiatric ad-vanced directives. The patient's continued autonomy and independence is more related to the condition not the directives.
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