The home health nurse is doing home visits with a child whose family seems to be reducing the stress of having a stranger in the home by treating the nurse like a member of the family. This situation is:
a. very therapeutic to the family
b. placing the nurse at risk for boundary violation
c. going to make the nurse's working conditions easier
d. likely to help the child deal with the trust issue more easily
B
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A Incorrect. Without maintaining healthy professional boundaries, therapy cannot be provided to the client or the family.
B Correct. A nurse may become overninvolved, and lose professional status when being treated like just another member of the family.
C Incorrect. The working conditions may seem easier, but the conditions required for a therapeutic professional nursing relationship cease to exist.
D Incorrect. The trust issue depends upon the therapeutic professional nursing relationship.
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