The wife of a patient who is hospitalized in the critical care unit following resuscitation for a sudden cardiac arrest at work demands to meet with the nursing manager
She states, "I want you to reassign my husband to another nurse. His current nurse is not in the room enough to make sure he is okay." The nurse recognizes that this response most likely is due to the wife's:
a. desire to pursue a lawsuit if the assignment is not changed.
b. inability to participate in the husband's care.
c. lack of prior experience in a critical care setting.
d. sense of loss of control of the situation.
D
Demanding behaviors often occur when the family member has a sense of loss of control or has had adverse outcomes in a previous hospitalization. Prevention of a lawsuit is not relevant to this scenario. No information is provided regarding whether the family member is participating in care or not. It is not known if she had a prior negative experience or not.
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