The family of a patient whose insurance will not pay for continuing hospitalization considers transferring the patient to a public mental hospital. They express concern that the patient will be "never get any treatment."
Which reply by the nurse would be most helpful?
a. "Under the law, treatment must be provided. Hospitalization without treatment violates patients' rights."
b. "All patients in public hospitals have the right to choose both a primary therapist and a primary nurse."
c. "That's a justifiable concern because the right to treatment extends only to provision of food, shelter, and safety."
d. "Much will depend on other patients, because the right to treatment for a psychotic patient takes precedence over the right to treatment of a patient who is stable."
A
The right to medical and psychiatric treatment was conferred on all patients hospitalized in public mental hospitals with the enactment of the federal Hospitalization of Mentally Ill Act in 1964.
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