A psychiatric–mental health nurse and a client who has a diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder have set long-term outcomes that focus on improving the client's coping and function
How can the nurse best facilitate the achievement of these long-term outcomes?
A) By focusing on the potential benefits that would be achieved by meeting the long-term outcomes
B) By setting a series of short-term outcomes that can lead to the long-term outcomes
C) By setting a series of nonspecific outcomes that gradually culminate in more specific outcomes
D) By setting consequences that will accompany failure to achieve the long-term outcomes
Ans: B
Feedback:
An aid to the development of realistic outcomes is the establishment of short-term outcomes that lead incrementally to a long-term outcome. Punitive measures and negative reinforcement are not used. All outcomes, whether short term or long term, should be specific.
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