Clients who are admitted to mental health facilities are a vulnerable population. Actions that a nurse might never engage in as an individual may be demonstrated in a group setting due to perceptions of:
A) Power
B) Knowledge
C) Inferiority
D) Insight
Ans: A
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In mental health settings, clients are vulnerable. Nurses and clinical staff, for all the emphasis on collaboration with clients and families, remain in positions of power. This power derives from their status as members of a profession with specialized knowledge that clients and their families may not have. The power differential is even greater in locked units to which clients have been involuntarily committed. Although we may think of ourselves as having a consistent and stable personality across time and space, we are not always the same people working alone as we are working in a group.
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