A client comes to her outpatient therapy appointment obviously intoxicated. Her husband tells the
nurse "There was nothing I could do to stop her when she started drinking this morning.". The nurse
should
a. talk with him about strategies to limit his wife's drinking.
b. have the client admitted to the inpatient psychiatric unit.
c. arrange for emergency admission to a detoxification unit.
d. tell the client that therapy cannot take place while she is intoxicated.
D
One cannot conduct meaningful therapy with an intoxicated client. The client should be taken home
to recover, then make another appointment.
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