A new nurse is noted to spend most of her time in the office, the medication room, or the utility room, busying herself with doing "things." She is seldom found interacting with clients. How can the nurse mentor best help the new nurse?
1. Ask, "Do clients frighten you so much that you are hiding?"
2. Advise the new nurse to briefly approach each client on the unit.
3. State the expectation that the nurse will interact with two clients for a minimum of 15 minutes each, during the morning.
4. Advise the new nurse to employ autodiagnosis by asking, "What is wrong with me that I am not more effective in my interactions with clients?"
ANS: 3
This direction will help the new nurse break the pattern of avoidance. Once interactions are be-gun, the nurse's anxiety will be likely to diminish. Option 1 will not reduce avoidance. Option 2 requires too many superficial contacts and gives little opportunity for the nurse to focus on a cli-ent rather than herself. Option 4 encourages the nurse to look at herself in a negative, rather than a constructive, way.
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