A nurse is working with a client who is in crisis. Which of the following would be least appropriate for the nurse to do?
A) Support the client's cultural beliefs about expressing feelings.
B) Encourage the client to focus on one aspect at a time.
C) Provide the client with an understanding that everything will be okay.
D) Explain information clearly to clarify any misconceptions or myths.
Ans: C
Telling the client that everything will be okay is false reassurance and blocks communication. Rather, the nurse should focus on what the information means to the client. Supporting the client's cultural beliefs about expressing his or her feelings, encouraging the client to focus on one thing at a time, and explaining information clearly are appropriate.
You might also like to view...
A patient is admitted to a medical surgical unit. What factors will determine how frequently vital signs will be assessed? (Select all that apply.)
a. Desire of the patient b. Judgment of need by the nurse c. Discretion of the family d. Orders of the health care provider e. Patient's condition
During a staff development program, each nurse was asked to complete the Meyers-Briggs test of personality
The results of the test indicated that each nurse showed characteristics related to one of the four categories of types of personality traits. These four categories have been identified as which of the following? a. Introversion-extroversion, thinking-intuition, sensing-perceiving, and sensing-judging b. Thinking-perceiving, sensing-intuition, judging-extroversion, and feeling-introversion c. Extroversion-introversion, sensing-intuition, thinking-feeling, and judging-perceiving d. Verbal-linguistic, sensing-feeling, bodily-kinesthetic, and introversion-extroversion
You must transfer an alert patient to the MRI department on a stretcher. The patient does not have a physician's order for side rails when in bed. You should
A. leave the side rails down on the stretcher. B. fasten the seat belt on the stretcher only. C. fasten the seat belt and raise the side rails. D. ask the nurse to call for physician clarification.
Fever is a sign of two major complications of organ transplantation. What are they?
What will be an ideal response?