A generalist psychiatric nurse works with his client to uncover a past abuse that the nurse learned about from the client's mother, not from the client. Which of the following best describes this nurse's intervention?
A) The generalist is working outside his scope of practice and should not be doing this intervention.
B) The generalist is concerned about the client and is implementing a treatment of choice in this situation.
C) The generalist should have ignored the data he received from the client's mother because it has no relation to the current hospitalization.
D) The generalist is operating under the concept of beneficence.
Ans: A
Psychotherapy that is designed to uncover repressed, past events is within the scope of practice of the advanced practice nurse, who has received training in this technique. It is not within the scope of the generalist psychiatric–mental health nurse and, therefore, should be avoided.
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