The nursing intervention that constitutes false imprisonment is:
a. The client is confused and combative. He insists that no one can stop him from
leaving. The nurse restrains him without a physician's order, then seeks the order.
b. The client has been "pesky," seeking the attention of nurses in the nurses' station
much of the day. Now the nurse escorts him to his room and tells him to stay
there or he'll be put into seclusion.
c. A psychotic client, admitted as an involuntary patient, runs out of the psychiatric
unit. The nurse runs after him and succeeds in talking the client into returning to
the unit.
d. A client, hospitalized as an involuntary admission, attempts to leave the unit. The
nurse calls the security team and, acting on established protocol, they prevent him
from leaving.
ANS: B
False imprisonment involves holding a competent person against his or her will. Actual force is not a
requirement of false imprisonment. The individual needs only to be placed in fear of imprisonment
by someone who has the ability to carry out the threat. The client in option A is not competent, and
the nurse is acting beneficently. The clients in options C and D have been admitted as involuntary
clients and should not be allowed to leave without permission of the treatment team.
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