Which action by a nurse violates the rights of a psychiatric patient?
a. Arranging for a patient to work in the hospital kitchen for minimum wage
b. Refusing to mail letters to the local newspaper written by a committed patient
c. Placing the wristwatch of a patient with delusions in the hospital's main safe
d. Discouraging a patient with paranoid delusions to sign a contract to sell a home
B
Psychiatric patients have the right to communicate with others outside the hospital.
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