You are the nurse working at a homeless shelter. You begin working with a homeless person who has been diagnosed as having paranoid schizophrenia. This client believes that everyone is trying to poison him
He comes to the shelter once or twice a week to eat the evening meal, which is soup. This client believes that soup is the only food that is not poisoned. An appropriate short-term outcome for this client would be that the client will: a. have decreased or absent delusions within 2 weeks
b. agree to take antipsychotic medication daily
c. eat food other than soup within 1 week
d. agree to meet with the nurse when he comes to eat
D
Agreeing to meet with the nurse when the client comes to the homeless shelter is a short-term goal that could possibly be achieved in a short period of time. Because the client is paranoid, it may take developing a relationship with the nurse before the client will agree to take medication and eat food other than soup. The goal to have decreased delusions within 2 weeks may not be reasonable until the other three goals have been met.
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