What is a relatively easy intervention that the nurse can make while assisting in a disaster shelter?
A. Encourage everyone in the shelter to guard their own things from possible theft.
B. Keep healthy victims busy, perhaps by assigning them specific duties to perform, such as watching the children who have injured parents.
C. Put hysterical or panic-stricken victims with adults who can listen to them.
D. Separate the children from the adults so the adults can get some rest while the children play.
ANS: B
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