Your client is exhibiting signs of increased anxiety while in the Intermediate Care Unit. She states that the noise is driving her "crazy." Your first steps to relieve her anxiety include all of the following EXCEPT:

1. turning down the volume of the monitors in her room.
2. sitting with her and describe the various sounds she is hearing in the hallway and on the unit.
3. asking noisy individuals to lower the volume of their voices.
4. offering a sedative.


ANS: 4

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