Every time the nurse enters the room of a postpartum client who gave birth three hours ago, the client asks something else about her birth experience. The nurse would:
1. Answer questions quickly and try to divert her attention to other subjects.
2. Review documentation of the birth experience and discuss it with her.
3. Contact the physician to warn him the client might want to file a lawsuit due to her preoccupation with her birth experience.
4. Submit a referral to Social Services because you are concerned about obsessive behavior.
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Rationale:
1. Answering questions quickly and trying to divert her attention to other subjects trivializes her questions and does not allow her to sort out the reality from her subjective experience.
2. Review documentation of the birth experience and discuss it with her so client can integrate the experience. Three hours after birth, the mother needs to talk about her perceptions of her labor and delivery
3. Contacting the physician to warn him that the client might want to file a lawsuit due to her preoccupation with her birth experiences is an incorrect action.
4. Submitting a referral to Social Services because you are concerned about obsessive behavior is an incorrect action, because this behavior is normal.
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