The nurse assigned to assertive community treatment (ACT) should explain the program's treatment goal as:
a. assisting patients to maintain abstinence from alcohol and other substances of abuse.
b. providing structure and a therapeutic milieu for mentally ill patients whose symptoms require stabilization.
c. maintaining medications and stable psychiatric status for incarcerated inmates who have a history of mental illness.
d. providing services for mentally ill individuals who require intensive treatment to continue to live in the community.
ANS: D
An assertive community treatment (ACT) program provides intensive community services to persons with serious, persistent mental illness who live in the community but require aggressive services to prevent repeated hospitalizations.
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