The nurse is caring for four patients. Which patient would not be appropriate to consider for group therapy? The patient who:
1. has limited financial resources.
2. is acutely manic.
3. has few friends on the unit.
4. does not speak up often, yet listens to others.
Ans: 2. is acutely manic.
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