A physician scolds a nurse. When a family member enters the client's room, that nurse tells the person cruelly that they need to wait until visiting hours
The supervising nurse should discuss this incident with the nurse, using knowledge that the de-fense mechanism the nurse used was:
1. Displacement
2. Projection
3. Sublimation
4. Suppression
ANS: 1
Displacement is transferring a response or feeling toward one person onto another less threaten-ing person, so option 1 is correct. 2. Projection is attributing strong faults to another and is not displayed in this scenario. 3. Sublimation is channeling maladaptive thoughts into socially ac-ceptable behaviors. 4. This is incorrect because suppression is intentionally avoiding thinking about problem areas.
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