A client who sought crisis intervention agrees after the first interview to return to the clinic daily for
two weeks. The nurse offers many suggestions for lifestyle changes the client should make as crisis
intervention progresses.
After six sessions, which feeling should alert the nurse to the need for
supervision?
a. Caring
b. Desire to be of assistance
c. Empathy for the client's recent losses
d. Wanting the client to be less clingy
D
The nurse feels unrealistic responsibility to "cure" the client's problems. The nurse must seek
supervision and examine the expectations for self and the client. When this has been accomplished,
the client's level of functioning can be reevaluated and realistic goals can be established with the
client.
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