The nurse is beginning the assessment process on a client with a sexual disorder. The client asks what is involved in being "assessed." What would be the nurse's best response?

A) "The assessment is mainly a psychiatric evaluation."
B) "The doctor will order some psychosexual testing."
C) "I will take a social and sexual history and then the doctor will decide what else might be needed."
D) "I will take a social and sexual history. You will have psychosexual and psychologic testing and physiologic studies of sexual arousal patterns done. A psychiatric evaluation may also be performed."


D

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