On admission to a psychiatric unit, a client with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) folds and unfolds her clothes and arranges and rearranges them in the drawers for an hour. What is the most appropriate nursing intervention for this client?
A) Explain to the client that she must come out of her room and join the others in the dayroom.
B) Give the client a task to complete to get her mind off the ritual.
C) Allow the client as much time as she wants to perform the ritual.
D) Take the client by the hand and say, "It's time to go to group therapy now."
C
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