A patient tells the nurse, "This medication makes me feel weird. I don't think I should take it anymore. Do you?" Select the nurse's best response
a. "I wonder why you think that."
b. "Tell me how it makes you feel."
c. "One must never stop taking medication."
d. "You need to discuss this with your psychiatrist."
B
As part of the psychopharmacology component of psychotherapeutic management, the responsibility of the nurse is to gather data about patients' responses to medication and to be alert for side and adverse effects of the medication. The other responses are tangential to the real issue.
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