The nurse manager, teaching a class to new staff members about working with patients with adjustment disorders, will specify that the intervention most helpful in working with patients with this diagnosis is:
a. Entering pertinent data in the patient's medical record
b. Including family members in the interdisciplinary treatment plan
c. Identifying the precipitating stressful event and current problems
d. Reducing the patient's level of anxiety to prevent behavioral escalation
ANS: C
Identification of the precipitating stressful event and interpretation of the existing problem are fundamental to working with the patient to reduce symptoms. Including family in treat-ment planning is secondary to identification of the stressor and the problem. Anxiety will remain high until the problem and the stressor are identified. Data entry is not directly related to the question posed.
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