A cognitively impaired patient has been a widow for 30 years. This patient frantically tries to leave the facility, saying, "I have to go home to cook dinner before my husband arrives from work." To intervene with validation therapy, the nurse will say:
a. "You must come away from the door."
b. "You have been a widow for many years."
c. "You want to go home to prepare your husband's dinner?"
d. "Your husband gets angry if you do not have dinner ready on time?"
ANS: C
Validation therapy meets the patient "where she or he is at the moment" and acknowledges the patient's wishes. Validation does not seek to redirect, reorient, or probe. The distracters do not validate the patient's feelings.
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