A psychiatric nurse visits one particular patient before work, seeks out the patient during the shift, and spends a few minutes with the patient after going off duty. Which analysis is accurate? The nurse is:
a. overinvolved.
b. expressing anger.
c. experiencing transference.
d. looking to be rescued.
A
The nurse behavior described is typical of overinvolvement. There are no data to support the distracters.
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