As a patient diagnosed with a mental illness is being discharged from a facility, a nurse invites the patient to the annual staff picnic. What is the best analysis of this scenario?
a. The invitation facilitates dependency on the nurse.
b. The nurse's action blurs the boundaries of the therapeutic relationship.
c. The invitation is therapeutic for the patient's diversional activity deficit.
d. The nurse's action assists the patient's integration into community living.
ANS: B
The invitation creates a social relationship rather than a therapeutic relationship.
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