A nurse is assisting at a disaster shelter. Which of the following interventions would be most appropriate for the nurse to implement?
a. Encouraging everyone in the shelter to guard their own things from possible theft
b. Keeping healthy victims busy by assigning them specific duties to perform
c. Putting hysterical or panic-stricken victims with adults who can listen to them
d. Separating the children from the adults so that the adults can rest while the children play
ANS: B
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