A nurse working with a depressed patient used humor to lift the patient's spirits. At one point, the patient smiled. Select the best analysis
a. Humor should be added to interventions in the plan of care.
b. The nurse helped the patient. The technique was successful.
c. The nurse needs supervision. The communication technique is not appropriate.
d. The nurse identified an approach that may prove useful in other, similar situations.
C
Clinical supervision will review the nurse's actions and thoughts and help the nurse arrive at a more therapeutic approach. Attempts at cheering up a depressed patient serve only to emphasize the disparity between the patient's mood and that of others. Active listening should be the technique used by the nurse. The distracters suggest the approach is therapeutic when it is not.
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