A home health nurse visits a client at home and determine that the client is dependent on drugs. Whcih of the following assesment questions would assist the nurse to provide appropriate nursing care?
a. ""Why did you get started on these drugs?""
b. ""How much do you use and what effect does it have on you?""
c. ""How long did you think you could take these drugs without someone finding out?""
d. The nurse does not ask anyquestions for fear that the client is in denial and will throw the nurse out of the home."
Ans: b. ""How much do you use and what effect does it have on you?""
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