A patient is struggling to explore and solve a problem. The nurse determines that it would be therapeutic to offer alternatives. Which verbal introduction should the nurse incorpo-rate in order to achieve this objective?
a. "Have you thought of..."
b. "You should..."
c. "Why don't you..."
d. "I think you need to..."
ANS: A
This encourages the patient to consider alternatives without giving advice. The other options are preludes to giving advice, which is not considered therapeutic.
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