The nurse is having lunch with colleagues from a medical-surgical unit. One of the medical-surgical nurses states, "I don't know how you can work with psych patients! They scare the heck out of me." How should the nurse respond?
1. "It's not that bad, and most of the clients are not that scary."
2. "The clients I work with have physical disorders just like the clients you work with."
3. "I don't know; sometimes I wonder what I am doing."
4. "I must have better nursing skills than you do."
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Rationale: The stigma associated with psychiatric diagnostic labels has to be confronted directly. It is important that the nurse communicate to peers that the clients have physical disorders that are no different from those physical disorders found on the medical-surgical unit.
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