A nurse interviewed a reluctant patient who answered questions with minimal responses and rarely made eye contact. When documenting baseline data collected in the interview, the nurse should include:
a. interview content only.
b. a description of the process of the interview.
c. both the content and the process of the interview.
d. both factual data about the patient and the nurse's emotional reaction.
C
It is important to document both baseline content and process. In addition to the verbal content of the interview, the patient's nonverbal messages and the nurse's reactions to the patient give important clues to the patient's state.
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